Western Art Music in South Korea : Everyday Experience and Cultural Critique

ISBN-13: 9783639112252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str.

Okon Hwang

Opis

Western art music is one of the most dominating cultural forces in contemporary South Korea. This book explores its presence in the country by providing two contrasting but interrelated angles. First, it introduces the minutiae of everyday life through the intimate portraits of individuals to provide a synchronic study of the contemporary lives involved in music making (a worm s eye view). Then, the book ventures onto diachronic analyses and macroscopic overviews in an attempt to make sense of its strong presence in the country through Confucian hypotheses and South Korean intellectuals struggle to pinpoint its rightful location in the Korean culturescape and consciousness (a bird s eye view). By doing so, this book addresses the issues of cultural ownership and identity and offers a model that would transcend the hegemonic struggle of the East/West dichotomy.

O autorze

Okon Hwang is Professor of Music at Eastern Connecticut State
University. In addition to her interest in the intersection
between Western art music and Korean cultural identity, she has
researched various aspects of popular music and culture of South
Korea. She holds two doctorates: D.M.A. in Piano and Ph.D. in
Ethnomusicology.