tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4200147945040702557.post8310462872030642002..comments2023-08-20T10:48:55.697-04:00Comments on Sustainable Music: Sustainability Unbound (5): Political EcologyJeff Todd Titonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10384565652765905576noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4200147945040702557.post-3823293968629132602012-09-03T01:59:00.154-04:002012-09-03T01:59:00.154-04:00Even though I've wrote a paper about the issue... Even though I've wrote a paper about the issue, I don't think that my opinion is the consensus of Korean scholars. Because even I didn't publish it yet. I'm just on the process constructing my thesis about it. <br /> However, I'm sure that if Asia follows the same method as Euro-America, it's possible that it would beget an abject ramification in Asian music culture. As Polanyi said, it's true that the system is also destroying the traditional concept; natural and eco-friendly, of Asian community, and the concept is the key to be created and performed Asian music culture. That's the reason why I believe that an alternative economy system could be worth in the different culture. <br /> We decided to read through books covering all sorts of the issue, so now we are reading "Bad Samaritans:The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". <br /> Hope I can find a fundamental way to analyze this crisis that Asian folk music culture faces now. :) <br /> Anyway, do you have a plan to come to China for the Beijing conference? I visited the conservatory twice about eight years ago for the cultural interchange between Korea and China. I also wonder about whether some scholars in the conference have same interest about it. <br /> Could I get some information from you about the conference? Bona Kwonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11514407876064972278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4200147945040702557.post-75679788414010014632012-08-30T23:59:16.405-04:002012-08-30T23:59:16.405-04:00I'd be very interested to know whether Polanyi...I'd be very interested to know whether Polanyi's thesis about economic transformation in Euro-America would work outside that region, particularly as modernity arrives in parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. I wonder if some of the scholars I met at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing would have an opinion on that, and I wonder what Korean scholars think? What did your book club decide? Jeff Todd Titonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384565652765905576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4200147945040702557.post-87638375020849673542012-08-27T12:05:33.650-04:002012-08-27T12:05:33.650-04:00Interesting. Last semester I read Karl Polanyi in ... Interesting. Last semester I read Karl Polanyi in a book club of musicology majors. We wanted to have perspective based on economy. Our question was how the liberal economic policy in modern Asia has been changed environment in which music was created and performed. I didn't expect to see Karl Polanyi and his book "The Great Transformation" on here. Glad to find this blog. :)Bona Kwonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11514407876064972278noreply@blogger.com