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A Belgian Website on Korean Psychedelic Rock/Pop

A well-constructed site dedicated to Korean psychedelic music in the 1960s-70s. Sound samples, photo images, articles, reviews, interviews, and even its own radio shows! Definitely worth a visit.

A Journey Back to the Ancestral Homeland: Kite Operations’ Korea Tour Diary

Following is the intro of the article I posted at koreanpop.org. Click here for the full text.

Kite Operations: (from left to right) Jie, Joe, Sung, Dave
Kite Operations is an independent rock band based in the New York City. All four members are of Korean-American origin, sprung up from the Korean immigrant community in [...]

grad student conference: music & politics

Call for Papers
University of California, Santa Barbara
April 5-6, 2008
The UCSB Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is
seeking submissions for the 2008 “Music and Politics” Graduate
Conference to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara
on April 5-6, 2008. This interdisciplinary conference—run by graduate
students, for graduate students—will focus on the many facets of the
convergence [...]