2001 Hahn Moo-Sook
Colloquium in the Korean Humanities
Co-hosted
by The Korean Cultural Service,
Korean Embassy
Korean Music
Saturday,
October 20, 2001
9:00 - 12:30
The Korean
Cultural Service
2370 Massachusetts
Avenue NW
Session I Lectures (Kirk Larsen, Chair)
9:30 - 10:10 Robert C. Provine
“Music, Measurements, Pitch Survivals, and Bell Shapes in Korea”
10:10 - 10:50 Byungki Hwang
“Korean Music and Its Chinese Influences”
10:50 – 11:00 BREAK
Session II Commentaries (Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Chair)
11:00 - 11:15 Chan E. Park
11:15 – 11:30 Andrew P. Killick
11:30 – 11:45 Elizabeth D. Tolbert
Session III General Discussion (R. Richard Grinker, Chair)
11:45 – 12:30
12:30 – Buffet Lunch
Byung-ki Hwang
Although Korean music of the traditional upper-class society, especially court music, was built on the basis of the cosmological philosophy of Confucianism from ancient China, the music itself — i.e., the rhythm, melody and instruments — is entirely different from Chinese music. In other words, the upper-class society of Korea developed an original music as it strove to adhere to the musical philosophy of ancient China even better than Chinese themselves. Although other fields of culture and the visual arts such as the fine arts, literature and philosophy were tremendously affected by Chinese influences, music, a purely audio art, was a creation of Koreans with almost no influences from China. This is why Koreans often say, “the traditional music is the soul of Korea.”
Byung-ki Hwang
Byung-ki Hwang is an Emeritus Professor of Korean Music at Ehwa Womans University in Seoul. Although he received a law degree from Seoul National University in 1959, Hwang had studied kayagûm and composition at the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts from 1951. He has received critical acclaim as the scholar of Korean traditional music and composer and performer who opened a new chapter in contemporary re-creation of kayagûm music. Hwang has been awarded numerous prizes, including the prestigious Chungang Cultural Grand Prize in 1992. He has toured widely since 1964, performing both traditional pieces and his own compositions in major venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Paris’s Musée Guimet. In 2000 he was elected to the National Academy of Arts. Hwang currently serves on the government’s Cultural Property Preservation Committee and the Korean Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. <byungkihwang@hotmail.com>, http://bkh.bestmusician.co.kr.
Robert C. Provine
Robert C. Provine is Chairman of the Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Music, M.A. in Asian Studies, and Ph.D. in Music, all from Harvard University. Provine researches the music of East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan), with a particular focus on Korean traditional music and a disciplinary emphasis on historical ethnomusicology. He also has an interest in Barbershop Quartets. Aside from having taught for many years in the United Kingdom, he is a member of the Board of the Society for Asian Music and past President of both the Association for Korean Studies in Europe and the Association for Korean Music Research. He has contributed the country article “Korea” and nineteen shorter entries to the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). He is the author of Essays on Sino-Korean Musicology: Early Sources for Korean Ritual Music (1988) and many articles. <provine@wam.umd.edu>, http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/Music/divisions/ethnomusic/Ethno2/facbios.html
Discussants:
Andrew P. Killick
Andrew P. Killick is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at The Florida State University and President of the Association for Korean Music Research. He is the author of a doctoral dissertation on Korean ch’anggûk opera (University of Washington, 1998), and numerous published articles. Since 1988 he has studied kayagûm with Hwang Byung-ki. His research interest in musical theater extends from Korean opera to the Broadway and Hollywood musical. Killick is also a prize-winning translator of modern Korean literature. akillick@mailer.fsu.edu, http://otto.cmr.fsu.edu/~cma/ethno.htm
Chan E. Park
Chan E. Park, Assistant Professor of Korean Language, Literature, and Folklore at The Ohio State University, is a performer and ethnographer of p’ansori, a story-singing tradition of Korea. For the past two decades, Park has worked toward inventing and theorizing the global presentation of local narrative traditions, with specific focus on the transnational performance of p’ansori for English speaking audiences. Park has written extensively on the interdisciplinary applicability of p’ansori. Her monograph, Voices from the Strawmat: Toward an Ethnography of P’ansori Singing, is forthcoming at the University of Hawaii Press. Chan Park park-miller.1@osu.edu, chanpark+@osu.edu, http://deall.ohio-state.edu/park-miller.1
Elizabeth D. Tolbert
Elizabeth D. Tolbert is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has pursued fieldwork in Finland with Finnish-Karelian lamenters, and among conservatory musicians in the United States. Her publications reflect her diverse interests in ethnomusicological theory, ritual, psychology of music, and intercultural aesthetics. <tolbert@peabody.jhu.edu> , http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/cons/consfac/cons-mushist-fac.html
Conveners:
Roy Richard Grinker
Roy Richard Grinker is Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University. He is the author of publications on ethnicity and nationalism in Africa and Korea, including Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998). His most recent book is a biography of the late anthropologist, Colin M. Turnbull, In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000). <rgrink@gwu.edu>, http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/facultystaff/grinker.html
Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Young-Key Kim-Renaud is Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs at GW. She is past President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics. A theoretical linguist with broad interest in Korean humanities and Asian affairs, Kim-Renaud has published five books and numerous articles in the area of Korean phonology, writing system, honorifics, and general Korean cultural history. <kimrenau@gwu.edu>, http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~kimrenau, http://myprofile.cos.com/kimreny76
Kirk W. Larsen
Kirk W. Larsen is Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University, and co-convener of the HMS Colloquium in the Korean Humanities. He received his Ph.D. in
Special thanks to the George Washington University Sigur
Center for Asian Studies.
The
Colloquium is open to the public and is free of charge. However, space
is limited and reservations are required.
For
more information:
Mr.
Gregory Shook
Korean
Cultural Service
2370
Massachusetts Ave.NW
Washington,
DC20008
Tel:
202-797-6346 Fax: 202-387-0413
gregorys@koreaemb.org
http://emb.dsdn.net/english/frame.htm
Dr. Young-Key Kim Renaud
Dept. of East Asian
Languages and Literatures
The George Washington
University
Washington DC, 20052
Tel: 202-994-7107/7106Fax:
202-994-1512
E-mail: kimrenau@gwu.edu
http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/special