김희선 (국민대학교 교수)
| Hee-sun Kim | |
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| Name in Latin Alphabet: | Hee-sun Kim |
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| Nationality: | Republic of Korea |
| Affiliation: | Kookmin University |
강연자 소개
Hee-sun Kim is a professor of ethnomusicology at Kookmin University and executive director of the World Music Cultural Foundation. She received a BA and MA in Korean music from Seoul National University and a Ph.D in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh. She formerly served as a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore in its cultural studies cluster, and as a research fellow at the Asian Music Institute of Seoul National University. Professor Kim has been working on modernization process of Korean music, Korean music and nationalism, globalization, identity, and gender. Kim has published the book, Contemporary Kayagŭm Music in Korea: Tradition, Modernity and Identity, and has contributed chapters to many widely-circulated publications, including Music of Korea, Sanjo, and Gugak Performance Program Guide, together with numerous academic papers on world music, Korean and Asian music, and culture. She has also published numerous translations of books on Korean traditional music, including Pansori, Gagok, Korean Haegeum: A Practical Guide, Understanding Korean Art, and Contemporary Gayageum Notations for Composers. Her recent writings have been published in internationally-refereed journals, including Asian Musicology (“Between Global and Local: Twenty-First Century Korean Music-Making,” 2012) and The World of Music (“Performing History and Imagining the Past: Re-Contextualization of Court Ensembles in Contemporary South Korea,” 2012), as well as several Korean journals. Her research interest concerns the modernization process in Korean, world, and contemporary Asian music. She is currently conducting research on the “Cultural Translation of Contemporary Asian Music,” with the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea. Dr. Kim serves as an editor of Journal of The Society for Korean Historico-Musicology and member of committee in several academic societies in national and international societies, and as program committee member of the International Council for Traditional Music. She had also served as an examiner of the Arts Council Korea, Korea Arts Management Service and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
