This book encloses an interdisciplinary examination of Korean musics evolution, contextual interactions, and global positioning from historical, sociocultural, and aesthetic perspectives. It brings together various scholarly contributions to analyse Korean musics transformations, innovations, and cultural suggestions, with a focus on its historical roots and contemporary manifestations. This book captures the multifaceted dynamics in Korean music, showcasing its adaptability and global importance while addressing cultural identity, tradition, and innovation.
Part I. Introduction.-
1. Mapping Korean Music: Tradition, Classical
Forms, K-Pop and more.- Part II. Korean Music and its national focused
impact.-
2. Shifts and Stasis in the Promotion of Gugak: Observing and
Interacting with Korean Music, 19792024.-
3. Beyond cultural boundaries
The Aesthetics of Interculturality in 21st-century Korean Contemporary
Music.-
4. Changgeuk as a window into shifting perceptions of gender in
Korean society.-
5. Origins of Global Korean Music: Overseas Performances of
South Korean Traditional Music During the Cold War Period.-
6. Pop Stars, the
Korean Government, and the Forgotten Stakeholders of Tradition.-
7.
Legitimizing Fandom: K-pop Playback Formats and Collecting Real Music.- Part
III. Korean music and its international focused impact.-
8. Classicism and
Inter-Asian Collaboration in Contemporary Music: The cases of "Eternal Pine
by Chou Wen-chung/Yi Jiyang, and "u by Unsuk Chin/Wu Wie.-
9. Are Korean
musicians competition-minded? History of competition and new paths.-
10.
Two is better than one: The Dynamics of Music-Making in
American-Korean Collaborations.-
11. Strategies and Issues of Sustainability
in Korean Drumming and Performing Arts Organizations in the United States.-
12. Inventing a pan: History of pansoris reception in France.
Anna Yates-Lu is Associate Professor in the Department of Korean Music at Seoul National University, specializing in ethnomusicology
HeeSook Oh is Professor of Musicology at the College of Music, Seoul National University, where she focuses on aesthetics of music and contemporary Korean music.
