Willoughby, Heather

(BA of Music in Music/Music Education from Brigham Young University 1991; MA in Ethnomusicology from Columbia 1997 with a thesis on "East vs. West: Perceptions and Issues in New York City's Folk Scenes". MPhil 1999; Ph.D., 2002). Dr. Willoughby's dissertation on "The Sound of Han: P'ansori, Timbre, and a Korean Ethos of Suffering and Lament," sponsored by Prof. Fox, was defended successfully in 2002. Her major field of interest is in traditional Korean music, with a secondary focus on American popular musics. Her research was funded by the Korea Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Her publications include an article "The Sound of Han: P'ansori, Timbre and a Korean Ethos of Pain and Suffering", Yearbook for Traditional Music 32, 2000:17-30, and she has presented papers at the meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Council for Traditional Music. IN 2004-5, she held a post-doctoral fellowship as an East Asian Studies Teaching Fellow at Wittenberg University, in Springfield, Ohio. Currently, she is a member of the faculty of Ewha Women's University in Korea.

 

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willoughby@ewha.ac.kr