Dr. Hannah HK Chang
Dr. Chang is a musicologist and historian specialising in trans-Pacific Korea currently teaching in the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies.
Dr Chang’s research bridges the gap between musicology and East Asian studies, and between the history of everyday practices and large-scale processes.
This objective inspired her to consider nineteenth- and twentieth-century Korea within the intertwined histories of the U.S., Japan, and Korea, paying attention to the aspects of musical diffusion that intersect with the history of empires and the formations of new selfhoods.
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Sorley Carney, BA
Sorley is working as Dr. Chang’s research assistant for the project. At university they developed good technical skills involving the Korean language and hanmun, which they used in the project transcribing many newspaper articles written in this old form of Korean.
Sorley completed their BA in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield, culminating in a dissertation researching North Korean Music Performance titled “Under the Shining sun you Dance and Fly: Cultural Memory and Control in North Korean Popular Music Performance.” If you have any questions on this research do not hesitate to contact them.
Outside of academia they are a published and exhibited artist, with some of their surrealist works published in the July 2021 edition of Art Magazineium.
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