Chung Ang University & Korean Music Education
In about a month I will leave for Korea to meet with students and introduce them to how technology and music technology could play an important role in music education in Korea. But I am told by some that the field of music education may be somewhat conservative in Korea, and I wonder what is meant by that description.
I will be outside of Seoul, in Anseong, the home of a spectacular university Chung Ang, whose president is Bum Hoon Park, one of the most eminent composers of Asia, who has done much to integrate Eastern and Western musical practices and traditions.
Should I expect that music educators in Korea may feel threatened by technology as was the case in the United States around 20 years ago? Even now there are pockets of resistance in the U.S. by those who think that technology robs music of its humanity.
But somehow I have expected Korea to be different. For one thing, Koreans as a whole seem more tech-savvy as a population than their American counterparts. In my understanding of Korean culture, I am acutely aware that most Koreans have at least one mobile phone, are connected to the Internet by broad band, and are familiar with digital photography and digital video.
I have planned a five-day workshop about Technological Trends in Music Education, but because I do not know these students and have had a word of caution, I am planning several alternatives to the materials and processes I would like students to discover and appropriate for their own. This workshop is an outgrowth of my course at NYU by the same name. Every year the course changes as the technology changes. iPods and Podcasts are starting to replace CDs, for example.
For me, the most exciting prospect is to continue to learn about the Korean culture, a process that has been going on for decades since I published a neighborhood newspaper when I was a young boy and its headlines focused on the Korean "hot" war, as we called it in the states. It was then that I began to learn about the people who had migrated to that peninsula from the Eurasian continent, a people of unique background and colorful traditions.
I will be outside of Seoul, in Anseong, the home of a spectacular university Chung Ang, whose president is Bum Hoon Park, one of the most eminent composers of Asia, who has done much to integrate Eastern and Western musical practices and traditions.
Should I expect that music educators in Korea may feel threatened by technology as was the case in the United States around 20 years ago? Even now there are pockets of resistance in the U.S. by those who think that technology robs music of its humanity.
But somehow I have expected Korea to be different. For one thing, Koreans as a whole seem more tech-savvy as a population than their American counterparts. In my understanding of Korean culture, I am acutely aware that most Koreans have at least one mobile phone, are connected to the Internet by broad band, and are familiar with digital photography and digital video.
I have planned a five-day workshop about Technological Trends in Music Education, but because I do not know these students and have had a word of caution, I am planning several alternatives to the materials and processes I would like students to discover and appropriate for their own. This workshop is an outgrowth of my course at NYU by the same name. Every year the course changes as the technology changes. iPods and Podcasts are starting to replace CDs, for example.
For me, the most exciting prospect is to continue to learn about the Korean culture, a process that has been going on for decades since I published a neighborhood newspaper when I was a young boy and its headlines focused on the Korean "hot" war, as we called it in the states. It was then that I began to learn about the people who had migrated to that peninsula from the Eurasian continent, a people of unique background and colorful traditions.
posted by Wyzard at
1:52 PM
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Technology dominates almost every fields of Arts $ Humanities, since 'department of cultural contents' has been founded here and there in universities. 'Music' and 'Art' began to be technolozied before 'Dance', and apparently the field of dance make full use of it. Although those technology related arts are admired and commonsensical, I sometimes miss the moment of undressed body and space. The stage where Just moving and staying are existed, the performance which performer and performing are stated. So that my eye can't get out of the scene...
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bohemian muse, at 9:42 PM
But even in that moment of the "undressed body and space" there is the technology of theatre and lighting...
Technology merely entends our range, amplifies our possibilities... of course, it requires a certain wisdom to make technology serve us rather than ourselves serving technology...
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Wyzard, at 2:03 PM
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