Western art music is one of the most dominating cultural forces in contemporary South Korea. This book explores its presence in the country by providing two contrasting but interrelated angles. First, it introduces the minutiae of everyday life through the intimate portraits of individuals to provide a synchronic study of the contemporary lives involved in music making (a worm’s eye view). Then, the book ventures onto diachronic analyses and macroscopic overviews in an attempt to make sense of its strong presence in the country through Confucian hypotheses and South Korean intellectuals’ struggle to pinpoint its rightful location in the Korean culturescape and consciousness (a bird’s eye view). By doing so, this book addresses the issues of cultural ownership and identity and offers a model that would transcend the hegemonic struggle of the East/West dichotomy.

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