Ch'angjak kugak: Blending the Wine and Stretching the Wineskins
Abstract
A minority of Korean composers write ‘creative traditional music’ (ch’angjak kugak) , new music for Korean instruments. An alternative designation, but one less regularly encountered, is ‘new traditional music’ ( shin kugak). I use the former term here; this has the advantage of making little implicit distinction between ‘composition’, ‘stitching’, ‘reorganization’ and ‘formation’.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Musicology and Musical Analysis
Diverse Musicological Studies
Music Technology and Sound Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 89–128
- Publication date
- 12 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter