Aesthetics, Life, and Ethnomusicology | Dr. Jocelyn Clark and The Story of Korean Sori

Sep 21, 2024

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Jocelyn Clark is a performer and scholar. Before becoming a professor at Pai Chai (培材) University in South Korea, she founded and directed the CrossSound new music festival in Alaska, and the new music touring ensemble IIIZ+ (guzheng, koto, gayageum, and percussion), organizations through which she commissioned and/or premiered over 30 new works for Korean gayageum. Next to her work in contemporary music she is the first foreigner without Korean heritage to become an official government disciple in the National Heritage system, in the genre gayageum sanjo and byeongchang [伽倻琴散調/竝唱].

As a scholar, Clark has spent over 25 years in Japan, China, and Korea studying traditional musics. She holds a Ph. D. from Harvard University in East Asian Languages and Civilizations where she wrote on the language of pansori, focusing on the tension between its oral transmission/low social standing and its tenuous relationship to Chinese classical poetic texts of the High Tang. Other research interests include music of place, aesthetics, and contemporary “national music” performance practices in Northeast Asia in the age of AI. She has published in academic journals such as The World of Music, Asian Musicology, and Perspectives on Korean Music. She writes an opinion column for the national newspaper the JoongAng Daily.

The introduction music is taken from Jocelyn playing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAQ6u3-N0YY Discussion Outline

0:00 Starting a Korean Journey

14:05 Understanding Korean Music

22:00 Explaining Pansori

33:45 Pansori, Gender, and Change

38:36 Cultural Transmission and Education

45:15 Concepts and Social Recognition of Korean Culture

51:55 Seopyeonjae (서편제) and The Sound of a Flower (도리화가)

58:30 Korean Sounds

1:04:40 Aesthetics: More than Music

1:17:40 The Korean Language

1:22:30 3 Minutes Speaking Korean