Cultural blending in Korean opera: Love Letter by Uzong Choe
Lee, JinUk
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Description
Title
Cultural blending in Korean opera: Love Letter by Uzong Choe
Author(s)
Lee, JinUk
Issue Date
2020
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Gunn, Nathan
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Stone, Sylvia
Committee Member(s)
Carrillo, Carlos
Mattax Moersch, Charlotte
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
Korean opera
Uzong Choe
Love Letter
cultural blending
The Korean Creative Opera
Language
en
Abstract
The world is becoming smaller. The Internet and the power of social and information
media have received most of the credit for blending cultures together, but for centuries the arts
have contributed to the blending of people’s behavior, ideology, and way of life.
Love
Letter
by
Uzong
Choe
(b.
1968)
was
first
performed
in
2010.
The
opera
is
a
powerful
blender
of
cultural
norms
—
in
this
case
Western
musical
elements
with
Korean
tradition
—
and
it
also
appeals
to
the
Korean
audience’s
sentimentality
for
the
Old
World.
Choe
sets
the
characters
in
ancient
Korean
culture
with
modern
Western
musical
elements
such
as
jazz.
This
paper
sets
out
the
scope
and
importance
of
this
project
as
framed
by
the
history
of
Korean
and
European
opera
in
Korea,
research
objectives,
and
Choe’s
biography.
The
body
of
essay
presents
an
overview
of
the
cultural
blending
in
Love
Letter
and
analyzes
the
drama
and
music
in
this
context.
Choe
desires
to
build
bigger
audiences
for
Korean
opera.
He
succeeds
at
gathering
a
new
audience
by
successfully
appealing
to
their
emotions
and
brings
new
excitement
into
Korean
opera
by
blending
traditional
instrumentation,
dance,
and
performance
with
the
familiarity
of
modern
Western
music.
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