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Jung-Min Mina Lee, Instructor

Jung-Min Mina Lee

Please note: Jung-Min Mina has left the "Asian & Middle Eastern Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

My research interests broadly encompass the intersections of music and politics. Specifically, my research topics have included South Korea's postcolonial national/cultural identity as manifested in modern music of Korea, the intersection of traditional Korean music and post-tonal music, Cold War and music, Korean popular music (K-pop), the Darmstadt avant-garde during the post-World War II decades, and the analyses of works by Unsuk Chin, Isang Yun, Sukhi Kang, Un-young La, György Ligeti, Béla Bartók, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Igor Stravinsky.

I received my PhD in musicology from Duke University (2017) with the dissertation "National Identity Formation and Musical Modernism in Post-World War II Korea" (advisor: Philip Rupprecht). In addition to my master's degree in musicology from Duke University (2011), I hold a master's degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a bachelor's degree in economics from Northwestern University. 


Contact Info:
Office Location:  Room 025 JHFC, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • MUSIC 235T-2.01, VOICES IN MUSIC : KOREAN Synopsis
    Allen 317, Tu 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
    (also cross-listed as KOREAN 273T-2.01)
  • KOREAN 455S.01, KOREAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Synopsis
    Perkins 059, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • KOREAN 455S.01, KOREAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY Synopsis
    Perkins 065, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
Education:

Ph.D.Duke University2017
MMus (Piano)Manhattan School of Music2007
BA (Economics)Northwestern University2005
Specialties:

Musicology
Performance
Keyboard
Keywords:

Koreanists • Music and technology • Music theory • Music theory--History--20th century • Music--East Asian influences • Music--Historiography • Musicology • Popular music

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Lee, J-MM, Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century. By KYUNG HYUN KIM. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. xviii, 303 pp. ISBN: 9781478014492 (paper)., The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 82 no. 2 (2023), pp. 260-262, Cambridge University Press
  2. Lee, J-MM, Finding the K in K-pop Musically: A Stylistic History, in Cambridge Companion to K-pop, edited by Kim, S-Y (2023), pp. 51-72, Cambridge University Press
  3. Lee, J-MM, Minjung Kayo: Imagining Democracy through Song in South Korea., edited by Adlington, R; Contreras Zubillaga, I, Twentieth Century Music, vol. 20 no. 1 (2023), pp. 49-69, Cambridge University Press
  4. Lee, J-MM, Program notes for Season Signature Series Concerts, The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, 2017~present (2022)
  5. Lee, J-MM, Foreword to You Call That Music?!: Korean Popular Music Through the Generations, by Young-mee Lee. (2022), Taylor & Francis (translated by Cho, Y-MY; Park, BJ; Yoon, J.)

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