The Drift toward the GlobalA critical transformation was a shift in scale: from the traditional pentatonic to the Western — and by now global — diatonic. To be sure, it is not that music composed in pentatonic scale cannot become popular — consider only the Japonisme of some of Debussy's compositions —but a sure way to alienate an audience is to play music in alien registers and scales.10 New and alien music may be received as being tantamount to noise, an object of visceral dislike. Hence, just as South Koreans looking for something “new7' or just good in popular music in the 1970s embraced someone like the Japanese folk singer Itsuwa Mayumi, they were slower to accept the alien sound of Western rock music.11 There was, in short, a chasm between Cho and Elvis Presley or the Beatles, much less Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin: the musical distance between South Korea and the United States (and theso-caDed West) remained significant. Nonetheless, the distance was to narrow rapidly in the ensuing two or three decades.
The Drift toward the Global<br>A critical transformation was a shift in scale: from the traditional pentatonic to the Western — and by now global — diatonic. To be sure, it is not that music composed in pentatonic scale cannot become popular — consider only the Japonisme of some of Debussy's compositions —but a sure way to alienate an audience is to play music in alien registers and scales.10 New and alien music may be received as being tantamount to noise, an object of visceral dislike. Hence, just as South Koreans looking for something “new7' or just good in popular music in the 1970s embraced someone like the Japanese folk singer Itsuwa Mayumi, they were slower to accept the alien sound of Western rock music.11 There was, in short, a chasm between Cho and Elvis Presley or the Beatles, much less Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin: the musical distance between South Korea and the United States (and the<br>so-caDed West) remained significant. Nonetheless, the distance was to narrow rapidly in the ensuing two or three decades.
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