[KS] Re: Indonesian music in Korea?
Keith Howard
kh at soas.ac.uk
Mon Jul 24 12:41:39 EDT 2000
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To my knowledge, there is no gamelan in Korea. Scholars at the main Seoul
universities have resisted all temptations so far, despite the abundance of
Javanese and Balinese sets in Japan (-these are well known). Korean
musicological interests, when they move beyond Korea, have so far tended to
go westwards, to India and Nepal, or to other East Asian states. If you
want to find out what's been done, a number of established scholars could
be consulted, but Ch=F4n Inp'y=F4ng (at Chungang University), who has conduc=
ted
several extended periods of fieldwork in India/Nepal would be a good
starting point. Kw=F4n Os=F4ng (at Hanyang University) also has interests in
South Asia, and has been heavily involved in setting up the recent
Pacific/East Asian ethnomusicology colloquia. Song Pangsong, who 20 years
ago wrote an article comparing sanjo with raga, seems not to have kept up
his interest (he can be contacted at the National Arts University in
Seoul). China and Mongolia are areas of interest to a number of scholars,
Ch'oe Hyegy=F4ng being perhaps the most dedicated (she studied in Taiwan for
several years). Park Mi-kyung, at Kyemy=F4ng University, is one of the very
few Korean musicologists who would call herself an ethnomusicologist; she
studied at UCLA, submitting a thesis on Korean shamanism. For her views on
ethnomusicology in Korea, check out her article in Tongyang =FBmak, vol.20,
pp.61-93 (1998). Some junior scholars have studied other non-Western musics
(from Irish fiddling through to African traditions), but none has yet
established themselves back in Korea.
Keith Howard
>Forgive me for introducing a question unrelated to dogs, transliteration,
>or invasions, yet still I persist in asking. I have received a query as to
>whether one of the Korean universities or colleges has a Javanese or
>Balinese gamelan--for those of you who don't know, this would be some kind
>of Indonesian orchestra consisting primarily of gongs, racks of metal
>bars, and drums. (Organologists among the readership now have permission
>to shudder at that description...) If there is one, it would most likely
>be in a music department.
>
>Has anyone seen anything like this? And while we're at it, what is the
>position of foreign but non-Western music (however so defined) in Korea
>these days?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Richard
>
>P.S. Like it or not, you have to admit that "Gorea" does resolve the
>C-versus-K issue...
>--Richard C. Miller
>--UW School of Music
>--Manado, Indonesia
>--rcmiller at students.wisc.edu
> http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~rcmiller/
Dr Keith Howard
Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies and Music
SOAS,Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG, UK
Tel: 020 7898 4687; Fax: 020 7898 4699; EMail: kh at soas.ac.uk
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To my knowledge, there is no gamelan in Korea. Scholars at the main
Seoul universities have resisted all temptations so far, despite the
abundance of Javanese and Balinese sets in Japan (-these are well
known). Korean musicological interests, when they move beyond Korea,
have so far tended to go westwards, to India and Nepal, or to other
East Asian states. If you want to find out what's been done, a number
of established scholars could be consulted, but Ch=F4n Inp'y=F4ng (at
Chungang University), who has conducted several extended periods of
fieldwork in India/Nepal would be a good starting point. Kw=F4n Os=F4ng (at
Hanyang University) also has interests in South Asia, and has been
heavily involved in setting up the recent Pacific/East Asian
ethnomusicology colloquia. Song Pangsong, who 20 years ago wrote an
article comparing <italic>sanjo</italic> with <italic>raga</italic>,
seems not to have kept up his interest (he can be contacted at the
National Arts University in Seoul). China and Mongolia are areas of
interest to a number of scholars, Ch'oe Hyegy=F4ng being perhaps the most
dedicated (she studied in Taiwan for several years). Park Mi-kyung, at
Kyemy=F4ng University, is one of the very few Korean musicologists who
would call herself an ethnomusicologist; she studied at UCLA,
submitting a thesis on Korean shamanism. For her views on
ethnomusicology in Korea, check out her article in <italic>Tongyang
=FBmak</italic>, vol.20, pp.61-93 (1998). Some junior scholars have
studied other non-Western musics (from Irish fiddling through to
African traditions), but none has yet established themselves back in
Korea.
Keith Howard =20
<excerpt>Forgive me for introducing a question unrelated to dogs,
transliteration, or invasions, yet still I persist in asking. I have
received a query as to whether one of the Korean universities or
colleges has a Javanese or Balinese gamelan--for those of you who don't
know, this would be some kind of Indonesian orchestra consisting
primarily of gongs, racks of metal bars, and drums. (Organologists
among the readership now have permission to shudder at that
description...) If there is one, it would most likely be in a music
department.
Has anyone seen anything like this? And while we're at it, what
<underline>is</underline> the position of foreign but non-Western music
(however so defined) in Korea these days?
Thanks in advance!
Richard
P.S. Like it or not, you have to admit that "Gorea" does resolve the
C-versus-K issue...
--Richard C. Miller
--UW School of Music
--Manado, Indonesia
--rcmiller at students.wisc.edu
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~rcmiller/=20
</excerpt>
Dr Keith Howard
Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies and Music
SOAS,Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,=20
London WC1H 0XG, UK
Tel: 020 7898 4687; Fax: 020 7898 4699; EMail: kh at soas.ac.uk
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