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Heeseung Lee

Heeseung Lee

Assistant Professor, Music History and Music Theory

School of Music
College of Performing and Visual Arts

Contact Information

Office
Frasier 20

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

  • Assistant Professor, University of Norther Colorado, School of Music, Fall 2023–Present
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Northern Colorado, School of Music, Fall 2011–Spring 2023
  • Instructor, Aims Community College (Greeley Campus), Humanities (Music), Spring 2011
  • Lecturer, University of Denver, Lamont School of Music,             Fall 2005–Spring 2006

Other Experience

  • PVA Representative of Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program, University of Northern Colorado, Fall 2022–Present
  • Member of the Board at the Korean School of Fort Collins, CO,    Fall 2022-Present
  • Vice Principal and Instructor of the Korean School of Fort Collins, CO, Fall 2012–Fall 2022 

Research/Areas of Interest

  • Cross-Cultural Studies of Nineteenth-Century Music from Europe and the Americas
  • Patriarchy, Nationalism, and Transnationalism
  • Social Justice Education in Music History and Theory Pedagogy

Publications/Creative Works

“Vicente Fernández, Not Just for Latinx Students but for All,” Musicology Now (forthcoming, 2023)

Book Review of “Erica Buurman, The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Xiv 193 Pp. £75.00.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 2022, pp. 1–5., doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409822000453.

Book Review of “John J. Sheinbaum, Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019).” College Music Symposium 62, no. 2 (November 2022), https://symposium.music.org/index.php/current-issue/item/11564-i-good-music-what-it-is-who-gets-to-decide-i-by-john-j-sheinbaum.

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 (Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2015).” Journal of Musicological Research 36, no. 2 (April 2017): 170–72, https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2017.1304143.

“The Connections between Dufay’s Motet Nuper rosarum flores, King Solomon’s Temple, the Virgin Mary, and the Cathedral of Florence” in Dufay Studies, in Korean, ed. Mooncha Kim (Seoul: Yasol Press, 1998).

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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