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Theoretical Perspectives on Korean Traditional Music
Perspectives on Korean Music
Author: Keith Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1351911686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As Korea has developed and modernized, music has come to play a central role as a symbol of national identity. Nationalism has been stage managed by scholars, journalists and, from the beginning of the 1960s, by the state, as music genres have been documented, preserved and promoted as 'Intangible Cultural Properties'. Practitioners have been appointed 'holders' or, in everyday speech, 'Human Cultural Properties', to maintain, perform and teach exemplary versions of tradition. Over the last few years, the Korean preservation system has become a model for UNESCO's 'Living Human Treasures' and 'Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind'. In this volume, Keith Howard provides the first comprehensive analysis in English of the system. He documents court music and dance, Confucian and shaman ritual music, folksongs, the professional folk-art genres of p'ansori ('epic storytelling through song') and sanjo ('scattered melodies'), and more, as well as instrument making, food preparation and liquor distilling - a good performance, after all, requires wine to flow. The extensive documentation reflects considerable fieldwork, discussion and questioning carried out over a 25-year period, and blends the voices of scholars, government officials, performers, craftsmen and the general public. By interrogating both contemporary and historical data, Howard negotiates the debates and critiques that surround this remarkable attempt to protect local and national music and other performance arts and crafts. An accompanying CD illustrates many of the music genres considered, featuring many master musicians including some who have now died. The preservation of music and other performance arts and crafts is part of the contemporary zeitgeist, yet occupies contested territory. This is particularly true when the concept of 'tradition' is invoked. Within Korea, the recognition of the fragility of indigenous music inherited from earlier times is balanced by an awareness of the need to maintain identity as lifestyles change in response to modernization and globalization. Howard argues that Korea, and the world, is a better place when the richness of indigenous music is preserved and promoted.
Perspectives on Korean Music: Creating Korean music : tradition, innovation and the discourse of identity
Author: Keith Howard
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780754657293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage--updates of tradition, compositions, and collaborative fusions. He charts the development of the Korean music scene over the last 25 years and interprets the debates, claims and statistics by incorporating the voices of musicians, composers, scholars and critics.
Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music
Author: Eduardo De La Fuente
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9004184341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection brings together philosophers, sociologists, musicologists and students of culture who theorize music through cultural practices as diverse as opera and classical music, jazz and pop, avant-garde and DIY musical cultures, music festivals and isolated listening through the iPod, rock in urban heritage and the piano in East Asia.
Perspectives on Korean Music: Creating Korean music : tradition, innovation and the discourse of identity
Perspectives on Korean Music: intangible cultural properties as icons of identity
Toward the New Korean Musical Language
Author: Yoo-Sun Kang
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Even though Korea has had contact with Western music for only about one hundred years, Western music has become the mainstream music in South Korea. With the reconsideration of the dominance of Western musical culture, self-criticism of the musical situation began in the 1960s, dealing with two main subjects: understanding the problems of contemporary Korean music in its social context, and the search for ideal music for Korea. Following the theoretical development, various musical experiments have been attempted to address the notion of a new contemporary Korean music which uniquely expresses Korean cultural and national identity and which, at the same time, is universal in appeal to the world. The purpose of this thesis is to provide insights into the musical changes which have taken place in South Korea since the introduction of Western music and to bring to light how Korean composers have attempted to make a new Korean musical language. This thesis is organized into two chapters. Chapter I provides the historical perspectives of Korean music in order to comprehend how the new musical Korean tradition has been formed in contemporary music. It is divided into two sections. The first part traces the introduction of Western music in Korea, and describes phenomena that have appeared in the musical society of Korea after the introduction of Western music. Specifically, dynamic relationships between the two musical cultures, Western and traditional Korean music, are examined in terms of historical, political, and cultural changes in Korea since the late nineteenth century. This discussion also emphasizes how contemporary Korean composers made attempts to develop Korean music with a national identity with the changes of the times. The second part deals with Korean traditional music which is a source of inspiration and materials in contemporary compositions. Chapter II analyzes four selected solo piano works: Korean Dance Suite (1966) by Hoe-Kap Chung, Drei Bagatellen (1973) by Byung-Dong Paik, Korean Rhapsody (1975) by Un-Hoe Park, and Piano Sanjo No. 1 (1987) by Byung-Eun Yoo. The selected works show how these composers attempt to incorporate materials, techniques, and idioms of traditional Korean music into a Western contemporary compositional language. With the summary of the analysis, the conclusion reviews the present musical situation of South Korea and addresses the notion of a new contemporary Korea music with cultural identity and originality.
In Search of Korean Traditional Opera
Author: Andrew Killick
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0824860802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first book on Korean opera in a language other than Korean. Its subject is ch’angguk, a form of musical theater that has developed over the last hundred years from the older narrative singing tradition of p’ansori. Andrew Killick examines the history and current practice of ch’angguk as an ongoing attempt to invent a traditional Korean opera form to compare with those of neighboring China and Japan. In this, the work addresses a growing interest within the fields of ethnomusicology and Asian studies in the adaptation of traditional arts to conditions in the modern world. Ch’angguk presents an intriguing case in that, unlike the "invented traditions" described in Hobsbawm and Ranger's influential book that were firmly established within a few years of their invention, ch’angguk remains in a marginal position relative to recognized traditional art forms such as South Korea’s "Important Intangible Cultural Properties" after more than a century. Performers, writers, directors, and historians have looked for ways to make the genre more traditional, including looking outside Korea for comparisons with traditional theater forms in other countries and for recognition of ch’angguk as a national art form by international audiences. For the benefit of readers who have not seen ch’angguk performed, the author begins with a detailed description of a typical performance, illustrated with photographs and musical examples, followed by a history of the genre—from its still disputed origins in the early twentieth century through a major revival under Japanese colonial rule and the flourishing of an all-female version (yosong kukkuk) after Liberation to the efforts of the National Changgeuk Company and others to establish ch’angguk as Korean traditional opera. Killick concludes with analyses of the stories and music of ch’angguk and a personal view on developing a Korean national theater form for international audiences.
Political Choreographies, Decolonial Theories, Trans Bodies
Author: Marina Gržinić
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2023-04-12
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1527501477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book opens a discussion on bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons, subjects that are increasingly becoming a political front in the search for justice. It offers an in-depth look at the positions and current developments in decolonial theory, Black Marxism, trans* studies, and contemporary performance research and practice. The focus is on decolonial theory and trans* bodies, bringing forth a discussion of otherness shaped by race, class, and trans*. What kind of body, movement, and politics can be conceived to attack the neoliberal current with its accelerated digital changes and seemingly dispersed, but in reality hyper-flexible, bureaucratic controls?
