Music in Korea Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

*** Music in Korea is one of several case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case-study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure, covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present. *** Despite its longstanding position as a distinct cultural force in East Asia, Korea continues to be underrepresented in world music texts. Music in Korea is the first brief, single-volume text to provide a thematic, succinct introduction to the music of Korea—a region whose volatile political climate has often overshadowed its rich cultural and musical traditions. Based on author Donna Lee Kwon's extensive fieldwork, the text features interviews with performers, eyewitness accounts of performances, and vivid illustrations. Kwon uses three themes—Korea as a transnational player in East Asia, the intersection of Korean music and cultural politics, and Korea's maintenance of its strong cultural identity through both musical and aesthetic continuity—to survey the region and draw parallels and contrasts between its various traditions. Each theme lends itself to a discussion of Korea's classical musical customs and its contemporary developments. Packaged with an 80-minute audio CD containing musical examples, the text features numerous listening activities that engage students with the music. The companion website (www.oup.com/us/globalmusic) includes supplementary materials for instructors.

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

Donna Lee Kwon is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Kentucky.