Yerin Kang
Programme:
Music - PhD/MSc by Research
Start date:
Sept 2024
Mode of study:
Full time
Research title:
Broadcasting Broadway: Work, Adaptation, and the Live Television Musical in 2010s America (Working Title)
Biography
Yerin (Ye Rin) is a PhD student focusing on Live Television Musical Specials (LTMS) broadcast between 2013 and 2021. This research is exploring why the musical became live television programming in this period, why particular works were chosen, and how their adaptation constituted the cultural meaning of each broadcast.
Before joining the University of Edinburgh, she completed a BA at the Korea National University of Arts, majoring in Musicology with a minor in Guitar Performance, and earned an MA in Popular Music Research from Goldsmiths, University of London. She subsequently completed doctoral coursework in Performing Arts Studies at Seoul National University.
Beyond her studies, Yerin works on English-to-Korean translation of musicology texts, serves as backstage staff for several performance companies. For example, she participated as a dramaturg in the Jungnang Forest Festival(중랑숲ㄱ), contributing to concept development, team building, programme curation, and venue operations. She is also the treasurer of the Korean Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).
Research interests
- Musicals and its culture
- Media Musicals (Television/Film/Animation Musicals)
- Theatre and Popular Music
- Popular Music and Narratives
- Music and Storytelling
Topics in Popular Music (ECA, University of Edinburgh, 2026)
English Research Paper Writing for Graduate Students (Seoul National University, 2022-2024)
Listening to Masterpieces: Classical to Popular Music (The Discovery Academy at Korea National Institute for the Gifted , 2021-2023)
Research
Research
Publications
- Kang, Y. R. (2025). 'Reimagining Greek Myth: Reinterpreting Orpheus as a Folk Singer-Songwriter in Hadestown', Korean Journal of Popular Music, 36, 75-109. https://doi.org/10.36775/kjpm.2025.36.75
- Beard, D. & Gloag, K, (2023). Musicology: The key concepts (Music Aesthetics Society, Trans.). Taerimscore.
*English-Korean translator of following entries: Alterity, Conflict (Music and Conflict), Culture Industry, Emotion, Hybridity, Listening, Popular Musicology, Romanticism, Subjectivity - Kang, Y. R. (2022). 'Rewriting the Wonderful Wizard of Oz: African American Musical Theatre and The Wiz Live!'. The Journal of Modern English Drama, 35(2), 5-30. https://doi.org/10.29163/jmed.2022.8.35.2.5
Conference Presentations
- Music and the Moving Image XXII | 29 - 31 May 2026, New York, USA
Presentation Title - Why Live Television? Why Broadway? NBC's The Sound of Music Live! (2013) - XXIII Biennial Conference IASPM International | 07 - 11 Jul 2025, Paris, France
Presentation Title - Reimagining Broadway With Live Television: A Case Study of The Wiz Live! - Screening Live Performance | 03 - 04 Jul 2025, Southampton, UK
Presentation Title - Performing The Wiz for the Screen: A Comparative Study of Film and Live Television - XXII Biennial Conference IASPM International | 26 - 30 Jun 2023, Minneapolis, USA
Presentation Title - Whose Voice Is This? Virtual Identities in Popular Music