ISSUE SIXTEEN Fall 2004 Contents: [Return to NEWSLETTER INDEX] YouYoung Kang, Editor From
the President I
have little new to report in this last letter as your President. The
Association for Korean Music Research continues to grow in membership,
contribute to the leading journals in our field, and significantly participate
in the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Interest in Korean
music studies is on the rise, and I have had the pleasure of meeting or
corresponding with many new graduate students in our field in the United
States and Europe over the past two years. We have also as a group maintained
strong ties with faculty and institutions in Korea, keeping us rooted in the
primary sources of our research endeavors. As new members and officers convene
in Tucson in just a few weeks, it is my sincere hope that our Association
maintain its role as a warm and encouraging forum for the study and
dissemination of all Korean music from all theoretical perspectives. I would
also like to see our membership contribute in any way they can to our new
website, a project of perhaps greatest importance to our survival and
pertinence to the larger musicological community and the general public. I
wanted to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who helped me during my
term as President. It goes without saying that I/we could not have done it
without the tireless and gracious efforts of Okon Hwang and YouYoung Kang, who
remain patron saints of AKMR. It has truly been an honor and pleasure to serve
you all, and I look forward to helping the new President and our Association
as a regular member once again.
Best wishes,
Nathan Hesselink
Normal, Illinois
October 2004 Society for Ethnomusicology Association for Korean Music Research Meeting Saturday,
November 6, 12:30-1:30 pm Papers
on Korean and Korean-American Music Abstracts available here. “Praying Identities: Second-Generation Korean-American Christians and T’ongsongkido” "Ch’angguk Opera as a Showcase for Korean Traditional Music” “‘Third Generation Composers’ and Nationalism in Contemporary Korea” “Gender for Sale: The Marketing of Gender Ideals in South Korean Music Videos” Korean Music on the Margins “Finding a Niche for the Avant-Garde outside the Academy: The Experimental Dimension of
Korea’s Fusion Music” “Piano Pieces by South Korean Composers” “Interpreting Musical Traffic: Influences of Japanese Popular Music on Korean Popular Music since the mid-1990s” AKMR Announcements2004
Election Results
President:
Keith Howard Newsletter
Editor: Heather Willoughby Member-at-Large:
R. Anderson Sutton The
Website manager and Student Member-at-Large will be elected at the 2004
Business Meeting. Editor
of the Newsletter is Changing! As
of 2005, Heather Willoughby will be the new editor of the AKMR
Newsletter. Please send news
and announcements of events, publications, concerts, and conferences to her
at: willoughby@ewha.ac.kr AKMR
Website As
announced at the AKMR meeting in 2003, the Association for Korean Music
Research now owns the internet domain: http://www.akmr.org, thanks to the
generosity of Robert Provine. This
site is currently under construction. In
the meantime, please refer to the current website:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~provine/akmrpage.htm Publication
News from AKMR Members Judy
Van Zile’s book, Perspectives on Korean Dance,
received a 2003 Outstanding Publication Award from the Congress on Research in
Dance. Due to a conference postponement because of SARS, the award was
officially presented in August 2004 at the Taipei joint conference of the
Congress on Research in Dance, World Dance Alliance Asia-Pacific Chapter, and
International Council for Kinetography Laban. The conference was held at
Taipei National University of the Arts. Andrew
Killick’s forthcoming book on ch’angguk opera is
now under contract with the International Center for Korean Studies (ICKS) at
Korea University for publication in its Korean Studies Series. Books in this
series are placed by ICKS with reputable British and American university
presses. He will be working on the monograph during his study leave in spring
2005. Call
for Papers for Pansori Yon’gu Pansori
Yon’gu is the semi-annual journal published by Pansori Hakhoe, the
largest academic association for Pansori research, which has consisted of
musicologists, musicians, and scholars in Korean Literature since 1985. Pansori
Hakhoe’s president, Professor Seo Jong-mun of Kyungbuk University and the
board strongly hope to share their research and interests with scholars in
other countries. Writing in English will be accepted, and research articles on
Pansori and on other relevant topics to Pansori study will be welcomed.
Those
with an interest in this journal should contact Professor Sunghye Joo (email:
shjoo@knua.ac.kr) for a copy of the latest volume.
3rd Annual
Hawaii International January 13 - 16, 2005 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Sponsored by: East West Council
for Education Center of Asian
Pacific Studies of Peking University The 3rd Annual
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held January
13–16, 2005 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The
conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals
from the arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside
and outside their own particular disciplines.
For more information, see the website:
http://www.hichumanities.org. Report
from SIMS 2004
July 11-16, 2004 Melbourne, Australia
“Asian-Australian
Resonances: Similarities and
Differences in Perspective Between Two Pacific Composers” “Contemporizing
Korean Arts and Religion: Hi
Kyung Kim’s Rituels” “The
Minsok-Eumak and the Folk Song of North Korea:
Contemporary Developments in Traditional, Urban, and “Kim
Eun-Hye and the Second Generation of Women Composers in Korea” “The
Evolution of a Composer: Chan-Hae
Lee of South Korea” “The
Traditional Korean Vocal Form Gagok and the Need for a New Notation System” Concert:
Korean
Music Today Wednesday,
July 14, 2004, 7:30 pm Sorickil
(2000)
by Chan Hae Lee Duet
for Friends
(2002) by Andrew Imbrie Gayageum
Sanjo,
Jung Nam Hi – Hwang Byung Ki School Rituel
III: Transfiguration (2004-world
premiere) Performances
by:
AKMR InformationThe
Association for Korean Music Research (AKMR), founded in 1995, is an
international community of scholars and performers devoted to promoting, exchanging, and advancing in-depth study of Korean
music as a distinctive cluster of traditions. For
membership information, contact:
Dr. Okon Hwang AKMR
Website:
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