There are two Korean-focused panels at the Society for Ethnomusicology / Congress on Research in Dance joint conference this weekend in Philadelphia. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Friday Nov. 18th:</b></div>
<div><b>5K Parlor C</b></div><div><div><b>New Identities, Diverging Musics: Korea's 21st Century </b></div><div><b>Transcultural Adaptations</b></div><div>Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Wisconsin, </div><div>
Madison</div><div>8:30 Covering the Musical Rainbow: General Korean Traditional Music </div><div>Education and the Multicultural Dilemma</div><div>Hilary V Finchum-Sung, Seoul National University</div><div>9:00 Negotiating the Local, Regional and Global in Korean Mask </div>
<div>Dance Drama Performances</div><div>Donna L Kwon, University of Kentucky</div><div>9:30 Modernity Crisscrossed: New Musical Convergence and Chinese </div><div>Korean Musicians in South Korea</div><div>Sunhee Koo, University of Auckland</div>
<div>10:00 Transnational Samulnori and the Politics of Place</div><div>Katherine I. Lee, Harvard University</div><div><br></div><div><b>Sunday Nov. 20th. </b></div><div><div><b>12K Parlor C </b></div><div><b>In and Out of Korea</b></div>
<div>Chair: Keith Howard, University of London</div><div>8:30 Beyond Taegum: The Intercultural Dialogue of the Korean Flute </div><div>and the West</div><div>Hyelim Kim, University of London</div><div>9:00 Sounding out My P’ungmul: The Politics of the Ownership </div>
<div>Disputes over P’ungmul between Koreans and Korean Chinese</div><div>Soojin Kim, Ohio State University</div><div>9:30 Mass Games and “Sea of Blood” Operas: Ideology and the </div><div>Interface between Music and Dance in North Korea</div>
<div>Keith Howard, University of London</div><div>10:00 Preservation and Transformation: A New Generation of Mask </div><div>Dance Drama Performers in Korea</div><div>CedarBough T Saeji, University of California, Los Angeles</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Ph.D. Candidate in UCLA's program in Culture and Performance<br><br><br><div><br></div><br>
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