[KS] ch'ang jak kukak

[Richard Miller]

Andy Sutton (UW-Madison), who I think is on this list, has also been 
working on this subject. You can get his email from the UW website 
(http://www.wisc.edu).

Richard Miller
Center for East Asian Studies
UW-Madison

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