Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• CD Track List
• 1. KOREA FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER
• Pyongyang, North Korea
• Kosong, South Korea
• Intersecting Themes
• Transnationalism in Flux: From the Hermit Kingdom to the Korean Wave: From the Hermit Kingdom to the Korean Wave
• Modernization and Cultural Continuity in North and South Korea
• Music and Cultural Politics: Articulating the Border through Song
• Our Wish is Reunification: The Story of Im Su-kyong:
• Popular Visions of Reunification:
• 2. THE COURT AS CULTURAL CONDUIT
• Court Music, Cultural Policy, and the State
• The Movement of Court Culture from East to West
• The Development of Ritual Music of the Court: Music, Cultural Politics, and the State
• Court Music in Practice Today
• Experiencing State Sacrificial Music
• Ritual Order and Cosmology
• Instruments and Music
• Munmyo Cheryeak:
• Chongmyo Cheryeak:
• Tension and Release in Sujech'on
• 3. THE POLITICS OF PRESERVATION AND REVIVAL IN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
• Instrumental Preservation, Adaptation, and Revival
• South Korea: The Politics of Preservation and Revival
• North Korea: Music and the Masses
• Solo Repertoires
• Sanjo
• The Development of Sanjo and its Spread to other Instruments:
• Changdan: The Rhythmic Underpinning of Sanjo:
• The Interaction of Rhythm, Mode, and Melody in Sanjo:
• Ensemble Forms
• P'ungmul
• P'ungmul in the Village Madang:
• P'ungmul in the Streets: Political Protest Marches:
• P'ungmul on Stage: The Emergence of Samul Nori:
• Shamanist Ritual Forms
• Chindo Ssikkim-kut (Cleansing Rituals):
• Sinawi and the Cultivation of Improvisation:
• 4. THE SINGING VOICE
• Folksongs
• Central (Kyonggi) minyo
• Southern (Namdo) minyo
• Sijo-ch'ang: Cultivating an Appreciation for Sung Poetry
• Text, Rhythm, and Melody
• P'ansori: Intertextuality and Cultural Continuity
• History and Development Through Multiple Formats
• Performance and Repertoire
• Warm-up Songs (Tan'ga):
• Narrative Performance: The Song of Ch'unhyang:
• Expressive Elements of P'ansori
• P'ansori Aesthetics
• Contemporary Developments in Korean Musical Theater and Film
• North Korean Revolutionary Opera
• P'ansori and Film: Director Im Kwon-taek
• Sop'yonje:
• Ch'unhyang:
• 5. COLONIAL LEGACIES IN KOREA
• The Legacy of the Japanese Colonial Occupation (1910-1945)
• The Enduring Popularity of Trot
• The Emergence of Sin minyo
• Engaging with Western Concert Music
• South Korea: Tradition, Innovation, Synthesis, and Popularization
• North Korea: Music, Synthesis, and Politics
• Western Music and Modern Nationhood: The Making of Korea's National Anthems
• 6. NEGOTIATING TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS OF CULTURE
• Shifts in the Global Mediascape
• The Korean Wave
• K-Pop and the Influence of Seo Taiji and the Boys
• Music and Power
• The Presence of American Forces and the Dawn of a New Era in South Korean Pop
• State-sanctioned Popular Music in North Korea
• The Politicization of Popular Music in South Korea: T'ong kit'a and the Song Movement
• Cultural Continuity in Korean Popular Music: Indexing Tradition in Korean Hip-Hop
• Moving Beyond Tradition in the Music of Jang Goon
• Glossary
• References
• Resources
• Index