Present Position | Professor Emeritus
Ethnomusicology 音樂人類學 음악인류학
University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Nationality | U.S.A. |
Mailing Address | Music Department University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2411 Dole Street Honolulu,
HI 96822-2318
U. S. A. |
Music Dept. Office | phone 1-(808) 956-7756
fax 1-(808) 956-9657 |
Brief Biography
His publications include the entire entry of “Korea” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (6th edition); Styles and Esthetics in Korean Traditional Music (1977); Buddhist Music of Korea (1987); and numerous articles and edited works on Korean music.
In 2001, he has authored, coordinated and served as the main lecturer for the month-long “Workshop on Korean Music for Overseas Musicologists,” which was co-sponsored by the Korea Foundation and the National Gukak Center. He was two time Fulbright scholar in Korea in 1972-73 and in 1980-81, and Visiting Professor at the Academy of Korean Studies in 1996-98. He has served as the first President of the Association for Korean Music Research (AKMR) in 1995-96; Secretary-General for the 26th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) in 1980-81 and the First International Conference on Korean Studies in 1994. In 1990, he was also invited to the UNESCO’s Integral Study of the Silk Road Maritime Route Expeditions as a senior scholar.
Since he retired from the University of Hawaii at Manoa on June 1, 2022, he has been actively involved with scholarly activities as a professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and as the advisor of the Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University.
Education
1974 | Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, University of Washington, Seattle. |
1971 | M.A. Ethnomusicology, University of Washington |
1966 Spring | Korean Music Theory, Graduate School, Seoul National University.
(Attended one semester only) |
1964 | B.A. Korean Music Theory, Seoul National University |
