Haekyung Um
Biographic Data
| ID | 4521099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haekyung Um |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haekyung |
| FAMILY NAME | Um |
| SIGNATURE | UM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9114-4605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
UK–Asia music business collaborations: Liverpool Sound City, Modern Sky and Zandari Festa
This article explores the dynamics of transnational business collaboration between UK and Asian music companies, focusing on Liverpool Sound City in the United Kingdom, Modern Sky in China and Zandari Festa in South Korea. The specificities of their music business, the nature and motivation for partnership, the respective industry infrastructure and state cultural policies give shape to the outcome of their collaborations, which in turn influence…
From ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ to ‘Island’s Sunrise’: Young audience perceptions of Chineseness and Taiwaneseness in Taiwan’s popular music
This article explores how Chineseness and Taiwaneseness are constructed in Taiwan’s popular music and the ways in which young audiences in Taiwan make sense of the music to which they listen in their everyday lives. Focusing on two songs, Jay Chou’s ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ (a China Wind pop song in Mandarin Chinese) and Fire Ex’s ‘Island’s Sunrise’ (an indie rock song sung in Taiwanese Hokkien), an analysis of the lyrics, styles and settings i…
Korean Musical Drama: P'ansori and the Making of Tradition in Modernity
P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into her discussion musical, social and cultural aspects that include the evolution of p’ansori performance, origins and historical development, textual and mu…
The poetics of resistance and the politics of crossing borders: Korean hip-hop and 'cultural reterritorialisation
This paper examines the ways in which hip-hop has taken root in Korean popular culture. The processes that began in the early 1990s include appropriation, adaptation and 'cultural reterritorialisation'. By looking at recent Korean hip-hop outputs and their associated contexts, this paper explores the ways in which Korean hip-hop has gained its local specificities. This was achieved by combining and recontextualising Afro-American and Korean popul…
The politics of performance and the creation of South Asian music in Britain: Identities, transnational cosmopolitanism and the public sphere
The identities of the various South Asian communities are shaped and recognized not only by their place of origin and their specific contexts of migratory history, but also by very diverse post-migratory adaptive strategies and practices taken up by these South Asians. The complexities and debates that surround the roles and positions of music in British South Asian communities and their specific contexts are indicative of these adaptations and r…
New P'ansori in Twenty-first-century Korea: Creative Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity
Nearly a century has passed since the first new p'ansori piece The Song of Ch'oe Pyong-du was performed at the turn of the twentieth century. While traditional p'ansori, a form of folk musical drama, came to symbolize the cultural and artistic heritage of the Korean nation, new p'ansori , in new millennium, aspires to be a cultural expression that is relevant to the contemporary conditions of everyday life while retaining or even restoring what i…
The dialectics of politics and aesthetics in the Chinese Korean dance drama,the spirit of Changbai Mountain
This article explores the relationships between the political aspirations and aesthetic endeavours expressed in the Chinese Korean dance drama, The Spirit of Changbai Mountain, and how they relate to the political, cultural and ethnic identity of this migrant community. The nationality policies and socialist ideology of cultural production in China give shape to this dance drama, which depicts a collective history of the Korean minority as full m…
The Ucla Ethnomusicology Archive. URL: Http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive - The World and Traditional Music Section, The British Library National Sound Archive. URL: http://www.bl.uk/collections/s…
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. URL: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive - The World and Traditional Music Section, The British Library National Sound Archive. URL: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/imc.html - Volume 36
Listening patterns and identity of the Korean diaspora in the former USSR'1
This article examines the relationships between listening patterns and the construction of identities amongst the Korean diaspora in the former Soviet Union. This examination uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in an attempt to analyse the ways in which musics are consumed by these communities, and to understand better how a variety of self, social and ethnic identities are constructed and contested through music consumption
The poetics of resistance and the politics of crossing borders: Korean hip-hop and 'cultural reterritorialisation
This paper examines the ways in which hip-hop has taken root in Korean popular culture. The processes that began in the early 1990s include appropriation, adaptation and 'cultural reterritorialisation'. By looking at recent Korean hip-hop outputs and their associated contexts, this paper explores the ways in which Korean hip-hop has gained its local specificities. This was achieved by combining and recontextualising Afro-American and Korean popul…
Listening patterns and identity of the Korean diaspora in the former USSR'1
This article examines the relationships between listening patterns and the construction of identities amongst the Korean diaspora in the former Soviet Union. This examination uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in an attempt to analyse the ways in which musics are consumed by these communities, and to understand better how a variety of self, social and ethnic identities are constructed and contested through music consumption
Listening patterns and identity of the Korean diaspora in the former USSR'1
This article examines the relationships between listening patterns and the construction of identities amongst the Korean diaspora in the former Soviet Union. This examination uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in an attempt to analyse the ways in which musics are consumed by these communities, and to understand better how a variety of self, social and ethnic identities are constructed and contested through music consumption
The Ucla Ethnomusicology Archive. URL: Http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive - The World and Traditional Music Section, The British Library National Sound Archive. URL: http://www.bl.uk/collections/s…
The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. URL: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive - The World and Traditional Music Section, The British Library National Sound Archive. URL: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/imc.html - Volume 36
The dialectics of politics and aesthetics in the Chinese Korean dance drama,the spirit of Changbai Mountain
This article explores the relationships between the political aspirations and aesthetic endeavours expressed in the Chinese Korean dance drama, The Spirit of Changbai Mountain, and how they relate to the political, cultural and ethnic identity of this migrant community. The nationality policies and socialist ideology of cultural production in China give shape to this dance drama, which depicts a collective history of the Korean minority as full m…
New P'ansori in Twenty-first-century Korea: Creative Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity
Nearly a century has passed since the first new p'ansori piece The Song of Ch'oe Pyong-du was performed at the turn of the twentieth century. While traditional p'ansori, a form of folk musical drama, came to symbolize the cultural and artistic heritage of the Korean nation, new p'ansori , in new millennium, aspires to be a cultural expression that is relevant to the contemporary conditions of everyday life while retaining or even restoring what i…
The politics of performance and the creation of South Asian music in Britain: Identities, transnational cosmopolitanism and the public sphere
The identities of the various South Asian communities are shaped and recognized not only by their place of origin and their specific contexts of migratory history, but also by very diverse post-migratory adaptive strategies and practices taken up by these South Asians. The complexities and debates that surround the roles and positions of music in British South Asian communities and their specific contexts are indicative of these adaptations and r…
The poetics of resistance and the politics of crossing borders: Korean hip-hop and 'cultural reterritorialisation
This paper examines the ways in which hip-hop has taken root in Korean popular culture. The processes that began in the early 1990s include appropriation, adaptation and 'cultural reterritorialisation'. By looking at recent Korean hip-hop outputs and their associated contexts, this paper explores the ways in which Korean hip-hop has gained its local specificities. This was achieved by combining and recontextualising Afro-American and Korean popul…
Korean Musical Drama: P'ansori and the Making of Tradition in Modernity
P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into her discussion musical, social and cultural aspects that include the evolution of p’ansori performance, origins and historical development, textual and mu…
From ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ to ‘Island’s Sunrise’: Young audience perceptions of Chineseness and Taiwaneseness in Taiwan’s popular music
This article explores how Chineseness and Taiwaneseness are constructed in Taiwan’s popular music and the ways in which young audiences in Taiwan make sense of the music to which they listen in their everyday lives. Focusing on two songs, Jay Chou’s ‘Blue and White Porcelain’ (a China Wind pop song in Mandarin Chinese) and Fire Ex’s ‘Island’s Sunrise’ (an indie rock song sung in Taiwanese Hokkien), an analysis of the lyrics, styles and settings i…
UK–Asia music business collaborations: Liverpool Sound City, Modern Sky and Zandari Festa
This article explores the dynamics of transnational business collaboration between UK and Asian music companies, focusing on Liverpool Sound City in the United Kingdom, Modern Sky in China and Zandari Festa in South Korea. The specificities of their music business, the nature and motivation for partnership, the respective industry infrastructure and state cultural policies give shape to the outcome of their collaborations, which in turn influence…
Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · China (3 works) · Law (3 works)