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A Korean-Australian Aesthetic Within Breathing Materiality of Spirit and Being

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Abstract

Abstract:
Meanwhile, Polish-Australian composer Bruce Crossman emphasises the permeability of different cultural worlds and describes his attempts as a composer to achieve “hybrids of being”, particularly with reference to his encounters with Korean aesthetics.

Other papers touch upon the ways in which music is both potentially a deliberate expression and an involuntary reflection of the creator’s hybrid identity (Lin, Crossman, Liu and Caitano). Indeed, while the geopolitical and social changes that have occurred since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 have (albeit inconclusively) tested the validity of “identity” as a political concept, these chapters yet demonstrate forcibly that, for artists at least, identity serves as a meaningful summation of the manifold influences of cultural and historical memory acting upon them as they both create and reflect upon what they created.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComposers and Musicologists on the Present and Future of Art Music
Subtitle of host publicationCrossing into Distance
EditorsGeorge Holloway
Place of PublicationNewcastle upon Tyne, UK
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
Chapter4
Pages52-74
Number of pages23
EditionFirst Edition 2026
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-0364-6641-1
ISBN (Print)1-0364-6641-8
Publication statusPublished - 23 Apr 2026

Bibliographical note

This collection of essays, each sketching a different perspective on the
present and future of contemporary art music, represents the Proceedings of
the Third International Symposium of Contemporary Music Research
(2023), supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education, and both the Office
of Research and Development and the Department of Ethnomusicology at
Nanhua University.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • creativity
  • hybridities
  • creative voice
  • intercultural
  • repurposing
  • Korean architecture
  • Korean-Australian
  • improvisation
  • identities
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Judeo- Christian
  • Confucian
  • music
  • gayageum
  • Buddhist symbolism
  • taegŭm

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