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Heeseung Lee

Heeseung Lee

Adjunct Faculty, Music History and Music Theory

School of Music
College of Performing and Visual Arts

Contact Information

Phone
(970) 351-1343
Office
Frasier 119A

Education

University of North Texas (Denton, TX), Ph. D. in Musicology
Hanyang University (Seoul, Korea), M.M. in Music History
Hanyang University (Seoul, Korea), B.M. in Piano Performance

Professional/Academic Experience

Adjunct Professor of Music, University of Northern Colorado 2011 - Present
Instructor, Amins Community College 2011
Lecturer, University of Denver 2005 - 2006

Other Experience

Vice Principal and Instructor, Korean School of Fort Collins, CO 2012 - 2022

Research/Areas of Interest

Nineteenth-Century Classical and Popular Music
British and American Reception of Beethoven and His Music
Hyperreality in Performance Practice
American Popular Music
Music History Pedagogy

Publications/Creative Works

Book Review of John J. Sheinbaum, Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide. College Music Symposium 62, no. 2 (2022), forthcoming.

“Opening the Borders of the Canon with Vicente Fernández in the Exploration of Music through American Identities.” Paper read at the Teaching Music History Conference in University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO (June 2022).

Open Listener: Cross-Cultural Experience and Identity in American Music (Digital UNC, 2021). Open Educational Resource Textbook, Co-Authored with Jittapim Yamprai, https://digscholarship.unco.edu/textbooks/2/.

Online Textbook Review of Douglas Cohen and Brooklyn College Library and Academic IT, Music: Its Language, History, and Culture. Open Text Library (May 2021), https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/music-its-language-history-and-culture.

“Retracing the Roots of Bluegrass Music through an Affrilachian Aesthetic.” Journal of Music History Pedagogy 9, no. 2 (2019): 215–33, https://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php/jmhp/article/view/290.

Book Review of John Carnelley, George Smart and Nineteenth-Century London Concert Life. Journal of Musicological Research 36, no. 2 (April 2017): 170–72, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01411896.2017.1304143.

Honors and Awards

“Opening the Borders of the Canon with Vicente Fernández in the Exploration of Music through American Identities.” Paper to be read at the Teaching Music History Conference in University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO (June 2022) June 2022. $600 Travel Funding Received from the School of Music, University of Northern Colorado.

MUS 155: Beats and Grooves in Hispanic and Latinx Music (U. S. Multicultural Studies) April 2022. Liberal Arts Course Created. $1500 Received from the School of Music, University of Northern Colorado.

Online Textbook Review at Open Text Library May 2021. $200 Grant Received from Open Educational Resources Webinars: Open Textbook Review Workshop at the University of Northern Colorado to review the following:
Douglas Cohen and Brooklyn College Library and Academic IT, Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (CUNY Academic Works, 2015).

Open Educational Resource Funding from the Colorado Department of Higher Education February 2021. $100 for the 13th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy.

Open Listener: Cross-Cultural Experience and Identity in American Music (Digital UNC, 2021) April 2020. $3000 for Open Educational Resource Textbook, Co-Authored with Jittapim Yamprai through the Colorado State/UNC OER Open Adoption/Adaption/Creation Grant
https://digscholarship.unco.edu/textbooks/2/.


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