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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Dear Kevin,<BR>
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Hilary Finchum-Sung at UC Berkeley has recently done very good work on the subject. Please check with her. I have her email address, but you may easily find it on the web (and I am wary of sending email addresses over the web because of spam).<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
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Roald <BR>
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On 14/12/07 5:26 PM, "kevin@macosx.com" <kevin@macosx.com> wrote:<BR>
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> I wonder if there are any folks on this list who are doing, or have <BR>
> done some work on ch'ang jak kukak. I remember years ago bumping into <BR>
> folks here in Seoul who were investigating and writing about such <BR>
> things. I suddenly find myself having to look into this area and I am <BR>
> trying to find a path forward and also trying to decide which <BR>
> musicians/pieces/approaches I might investigate. I am interested in <BR>
> everything from the barely neo-traditional (some Kim Young-Jae pieces, <BR>
> for example, seem to spring seamlessly from the existing repertoire) <BR>
> to hybrids and experimentalists (Kim Jin Hi) and am especially younger <BR>
> folks (like Won-il). Of course there is Hwang Byoung-gi, Im <BR>
> Dong-ch'ang and others. Named above are mostly traditional music <BR>
> musicians who create new pieces drawing on that tradition.<BR>
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> On the other hand are "Composers" who have western art music type <BR>
> training who integrate elements from traditional music in some way. <BR>
> These are folks like Yun i sang, Hwang Sung-ho, Young-hi Pagh-pan, <BR>
> Kang Sukhi and others, including those mentioned in the Babcock <BR>
> article (Korean Composers in Profile, Tempo 1995).<BR>
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> In any case, I would like to know what else there is and what <BR>
> scholarship might be under way on the topic.<BR>
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> I would be interest to to have folks point me to works that either <BR>
> exemplify a specific approach or aesthetic (towards integrating <BR>
> traditional musical materials or ideas) or just pieces that seems <BR>
> "successful" or extraordinary in some way.<BR>
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> cheers,<BR>
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> Kevin Parks<BR>
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