Ensembles in the Contemporary Korean Soundscape

Name: Ensembles in the Contemporary Korean Soundscape
Brand: VWB-Verlag
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Birgit Abels(Herausgeber*in)

VWB-Verlag

1. Auflage

Erschienen in 2012

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Softcover

200 Seiten

978-3-86135-901-2 (ISBN)

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War, occupation, and education inspired contemporary adaptations in Korean traditional music throughout the Korean peninsula. The political and psychological divisions fueling a quest for distinction in the North have led to decades of musical revisions infrequently heard and little understood by those outside of the regime's borders. In the South, concerns over lost traditions stimulated the development of cultural heritage and education systems emphasizing preservation. Consequently, a divide between musical heritage and creative activity developed mid-twentieth century as the traditional and the 'traditionesque' both struggled to express contemporary Korean identity in the face of domestic cultural perils such as Westernization and deficient public interest. In both North and South Korea, traditional performance genres and contemporary referents have generally come to represent a metaphorical home, one emblematic of Korean cultural roots and twenty-first century identity. At the heart of these dramatic transitions has been the ensemble; from large-scale Western-influenced orchestras to intimate chamber ensembles. The ensemble has been a constant over time as a principled representative of both current circumstances and potentialities. This special issue seeks to explore shifts in Korea's musical culture through an examination of the many ensembles-court ensembles to fusion teams-that now represent it.
With diverse ensembles inside Korea's musical world providing a window through which we can discuss musical change, the issue's coalescent theme is that of soundscape. In ethnomusicological parlance, the term has come to indicate all sonic phenomena accidental and purposeful, natural and manipulated connected to a particular place at a particular time. The atmospheric sounds of Korea's twenty and twenty-first century rapidly changing environment have contoured the character of the populace, inspiring ensemble acoustic expressivities. Contributors provide a well-rounded representation of the ensemble within the contemporary Korean soundscape. Individual articles explore the genesis and revival of the court ensemble, the modern traditional music orchestra, the young kugak team phenomenon, North/South trans-border collaborations, diversifying identities in ensemble performance, and domestic-to-global shifts in contemporary performance. The ensemble has increasingly diversified through collaborations, heritage cultivation, and global influence, effecting new potential and expectations for a Korean sound.

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+++ Articles

* Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung: Ensembles in the Contemporary Korean Soundscape: Foreword
* Keith Howard: SamulNori: Korean Drums (and Gongs) of Affection
* Dong-eun Noh: North Korea's Minjok Orchestra: Reform and Communication
* Mikyung Park: Modern Orchestra of Korean Instruments from Its Birth to the Present: A Critical Survey
* Hee-sun Kim: Performing History and Imagining the Past: Re-contextualization of Court Ensembles in Contemporary South Korea
* Jocelyn Collette Clark: Searching for a Niche without a Genre: The Case of the Multi-National East Asian Traditional New Music Ensemble IIIZ+
* Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung: Designing a Fresh Tradition: Young Kugak and Sonic Imaginings for a Progressive Korea

+++ Book Reviews (Helena Simonett, ed.)

* Kirsty Gillespie: Richard Moyle, Songs from the Second Float: A Musical Ethnography of Taku Atoll, Papua
New Guinea
* Hwee-San Tan: Tong Soon Lee, Chinese Street Opera in Singapore
* Ken Bilby: Raquel Z. Rivera, Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernadnez (eds.), Reggaeton
* Alejandro L. Madrid: Cathy Ragland, Música Norteña: Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations
* Trevor Wiggins: Steven M. Friedson, Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land & James Burns, Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-Drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become a Divine Spirit
* Ajay Heble: Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl (eds.), Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society
* Steven Spinner: Aaron L. Berkowitz, The Improvising Mind: Cognition and Creativity in the Musical Moment
* Jim Lovensheimer: John Koegel, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940
* Frank Gunderson: Marissa J. Moorman, Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
* Ted Solís: Huib Schippers, Facing the Music: Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective
* Eliot Bates: Martin Stokes, The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
* Ching-Yi Chen: Su Zheng, Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America & Marc L. Moskowitz, Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and Its Cultural Connotations
* Jun Yon Hwang: Andrew Killick, In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch'angguk.

+++ Recording Reviews (Dan Bendrups, ed.)

* Kerrin Hancock: Kulmus Hanefesh: A Musical Journey into the Hassidic Niggun. The Hebrew University, Faculty of Humanities, Jewish Music Research Centre in collaboration with the National Library of Israel (2009)
* Dan Bendrups: Michael Tenzer Let Others Name You, New World Records 80697-2 (2009)
* Peter Dunbar-Hall: Terompong Beruk: Le gamelan de Bangle. AIMP XCIX, VDE CD-1331 (2011), Archives internationales de musique populaire, Musee d'ethnographie (MEG) Geneve

+++ Website Reviews (Frances Wilkins, ed.)

* Patricia Ballantyne: Music: Cape Breton's Unity in Diversity, http://beatoninstitutemusic.ca
* Simon Keegan-Phipps: Take Six, http://library.efdss.org/archives/
* Christine Dettmann: British Library Archival Sound Recordings: World and Traditional Music, http://sounds.bl.uk
* Davide Torri: The Travelling Archive, http://www.thetravellingarchive.org
* Britta Sweers: London Sound Survey, http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk

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