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Asian Communities and Tradition: Postcoloniality of Korean Music in the Globalization

Kim Sunghye 1

1한국예술종합학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Recently, Asia Traditional Orchestra is paid attention to by the scholarly communities of Korea. 11 Asian countries participate in launching Asia Traditional Orchestra and have sought to construct Asia’s indigenous cultural values. Thus, it seems that the launch of Asia Traditional Orchestra mirrors a first step to reconstruct an imagined community of Asia in the era of globalization. Asian Traditional Orchestra can be seen as a decolonization and glocalization of postcolonial Asian communities, adopting the strategies of juxtaposition and intertextuality of one’s own musical tradition. In this sense, the main goal of my paper is to analyze the dynamics and imbalance between global and local which is reflected in Asia Traditional Orchestra. On the one hand, my argument is more centered on how this orchestra consciously or unconsciously observes Asia herself as others. That is, my paper not merely mediates the dialogics between the ‘West/global’ and the Asian communities/local and between modernity and tradition but also uncover the modernist and Orientalist discourse hidden in this project. On the other hand, my paper also explores the way which Asia Traditional Orchestra can serve as a meaningful proposal for overcoming the ambivalence of globalization.

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