Editors' Note

We the editors of Korean Anthropology Review: A journal of Korean anthropology in translation (KAR) are presenting our fourth volume. This time we have selected articles that focus on space and place as anthropological problems. Anthropologists have long recognized space and place as objects of, and participants in, cultural meaning construction, and this volumes contributors explore how spatial phenomena are constructed and contested. The fourth volume also expands the geographical scope of our journal by including pieces that deal not only with South Korea but also present research conducted in another locale, Japan. Our goal is to showcase the geographical diversity of South Korean anthropologists interests, and we intend to continue translating articles that look beyond Korea for future volumes

소포어머니노래방과 지역 민요 전통의 부활

For many scholars of Korean music, the southwestern province of the Korean peninsula remains a bright spot for folk performance activity. Residents of Jindo are widely acknowledged to be among the most proficient performers of Korean folk traditions. Thanks to the efforts of some key individuals, a few local genres underwent a period of refinement during the latter half of the 20th century which led to these genres designations as intangible cultural heritage. The island of Jindo, alone, hosts four performance traditions designated as national intangible heritage with many others designated regional and/or local intangible heritage. Many residents of the island, while depending on agricultural activities to earn a livelihood, began focusing energies on learning local music traditions both as a way to cushion their incomes and vie for coveted designation as human cultural treasure. This paper focuses on the efforts of the Sopo Village eomeoni noraebang (mothers singing room) in resurrecting and promoting folk song heritage. Instituted and curated by Han Namrye with the help of local government funding, the Sopo-ri eomeoni noraebang became both creative and social outlet for women of the village. Preceding the villages current jeonsugwan, the noraebang served as a crucial vehicle for maintaining and teaching local folk songs as well as provided a space for the learning of professionalized genres such as pansori. The paper examines both the primary performance repertory of members as well as the tension between perceived local standards and those promulgated by the official intangible heritage system. Balanced between need to preserve a local identity and promotion of the village within a contemporary tourism-based economic climate, the noraebang vitalizes local performance tradition as it reinvents and personalizes it. The paper argues for a consideration of grassroots efforts in cultural reconstruction and preservation in addition to the political and economic incentives driving cultural production in this southwestern corner of the peninsula.한국음악을 연구하는 많은 학자들에게 한반도의 남서부 지방은 민속 활동을 연구할 수 있는 중요한 장소로 남아 있다. 진도의 주민들은 한국 민속 전통에서 가장 숙련된 연주자로 인정받고 있고, 일부 진도의 문화유산은 주요한 몇몇 개인의 노력으로 20세기 후반에 들어 세련되게 정제되는 과정을 거쳐 무형문화유산으로 지정되었다. 진도에서만 네 가지 전통문화가 국가무형유산으로 지정되었고, 그 외 많은 것들이 지역무형유산으로 지정되었다. 진도의 많은 주민들이 농사를 생업으로 삼고 있지만, 소득에 대한 대비책 또는 인간문화재를 얻기 위한 방법으로 전통음악을 익히는 데 집중하기 시작했다. 이 논문은 민요 유산의 부활과 활성화를 위한 소포어머니노래방의 노력에 초점을 맞추었다. 소포어머니노래방은 지방정부 자금을 받아 한남례가 설립하여 관장하였고, 이곳은 곧 마을 여성들을 위한 창조적이고 사회적인 공간으로 발전하였다. 현재 마을에서 운영되고 있는 전수관의 전신으로서 노래방은 민요를 유지하고 가르치는 중요한 장소로 제공되었을 뿐만 아니라 판소리와 같이 전문적인 장르를 배울 수 있는 기회를 제공하는 장소로도 역할을 하였다. 지역 문화를 보존하고 마을의 경제적 활성화를 이루어 내기 위해 소포어머니노래방은 전통을 재창조하고 이를 특성화시킴으로써 지역 문화에 활력을 불어넣었다. 본 연구는 한반도 남서부 구석에서 이루어지고 있는 문화 재건과 보존을 위한 민초(grassroots) 노력과 더불어 문화 생산을 위한 정치적․경제적 장려책 고려에 대한 주장을 담았다

Designing a Fresh Tradition: Young Kugak and Sonic Imaginings for a Progressive Korea

no abstract --- JSTOR link to article (restricted access) https://www.jstor.org/stable/4169997

Kugak Concerti -Changing the Contours of Korean Music Performance

해방이후 한국은 정악과 민속악 모두 예전 음악성과 스타일을 보호하고, 새로운 것들을 만들어 나가는 변환을 직면했다. 본 논문에서는 두 가지의 변환 속에서 후자, 즉 새로운 것을 만들어 내는 변환에 초점을 맞추어 국악협주곡을 살펴보고자 한다. 그동안 다양한 공연의 영역 속에서 국악협주곡은 공연적인 부분 그리고 개발적인 부분에서 많은 인정을 받지 못하였다. 하지만, 최근 21세기에 들어 많은 공연에서 양금, 생황, 해금 같이 큰 조명을 받지 못하고, 주로 독주악기로 사용되었던 악기들이 솔로 악기로서 큰 조영을 받고 있다. 그러므로 나는 악기의 선택과 보통의 공연 관례의 경계에서 늘어난 새로운 기술에 대하여 두 개의 중심적인 영역에서 협주곡이 기여하고 있다고 생각한다. 이와 같은 주장을 바탕으로 본 글에서는 지난 세기 동안 만들어진 협주곡에 대한 개요에 대한 내용을 담을 것이다. 그리고 특히나 국악 협주곡을 통해 악기의 새로운 연주기법과 기술의 가능성에 대해 설명하고자 한다. In Korea's post-liberation era music of court and folk traditions faced transformations aimed at both protecting old music performance styles and creating new ones. For the purposes of this paper, I will focus on the latter of these changes through an exploration of the contemporary kugak concerto. The kugak concerto represents an under-appreciated yet significant realm in which developments in performance practice can be seen. In many cases, instruments not widely appreciated as featured or solo instruments-such as yanggum, saenghwang, and haegum-have become quite visible as solo instruments in the twenty-first century. I contend that instrumental choices and new techniques stretching the boundaries of standard performance practice are two central areas in which the concerto has contributed. In this paper, I provide an overview of the concertos that have been created and performed over the last century. And, in particular, I will discuss new uses for instruments and new performance techniques which can be seen as a corollary of the kugak concerto

Artistic Habitus in an Intercultural World: A Tale of Two Artists

no abstract --- JSTOR link to article (restricted access) https://www.jstor.org/stable/4484196

Breaking the Trend: Composing Korean Music for Korean Instruments

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The Sonic Habitus of Silk and Wood: Gugak's 21st Century Terrain

Transformations in Korean traditional musics social and cultural capital echo the Republic of Koreas breathtakingly rapid contemporary developments. Mid-20th century, the countrys traditional music faced a conundrum: selective resuscitation within a restrictive space of tradition. Since then, many musicians and composers have extended the boundaries of tradition, manipulating the success of cultural trends to build new platforms for gugak in contemporary Korea. Yet, gugak remains subject to long-standing cultural prejudice, placing it in an underdog position within the music market. Underscoring gugaks contributions to a core Korean aesthetic serves as one apparatus in fighting such prejudice. This aesthetic celebrates nature and collective emotion, as well as gugaks precious fragility in the contemporary music market. Inspired by the researchers ongoing research on conceptual and visual communication in performance, the paper considers use of physical space as a mark of distinction and status in Korean traditional music performance. The paper examines the restoration of acoustic space in contemporary performance, from the concert stage to the refurbished hanok, as crucial to gugaks developing 21st century sonic identity. Far from an unbiased and detached physical realm, the acoustic space becomes meaningful in the act of performance just as it lends meaning to a musical event. Debates regarding amplification, or absence thereof, in addition to ideal stage materials and design, relate closely to contemporary ideals of gugaks authentic sound. The act of performance draws performers and audience alike into an interpretive performance space, reinforcing the moments contributions to a Korean socio-historic sonic experience.OAIID:RECH_ACHV_DSTSH_NO:A201621249RECH_ACHV_FG:RR00200003ADJUST_YN:EMP_ID:A078047CITE_RATE:FILENAME:Paper_The Sonic Habitus of Silk and Wood_Finchum-Sung.docxDEPT_NM:국악과EMAIL:[email protected]_YN:FILEURL:https://srnd.snu.ac.kr/eXrepEIR/fws/file/5cfe21bd-9ee8-4bc9-bd07-37ad3c6b524b/linkCONFIRM:

Relational Epistemology of the Island: Music Sustainability and Interrelations on Chindo

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