Stepping in the Madang (eBook)

Sustaining Expressive Ecologies of Korean Drumming and Dance

Donna L. Kwon (Autor)

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2024
296 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8195-0142-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The madang is a key space and concept for Korean drummers and dancers. Literally a village circle, the madang is also a metaphor for an expressive occasion or cultural space of embodied participation. Korean performers step in the madang as a means of bringing their bodies into purposeful contact with the particular time and place of performance. Kwon contends that the participatory way of being that is cultivated in the madang counteracts the fossilization of tradition by bringing folk practices more fully into the embodied present, even if in an idealized fashion. The madang draws attention to the body; it increases one's awareness of space and place; and it creates open-ended performances that are conducive to a more dynamic range of social interactions. The book starts with a study of a Korean p'ungmul group that maintains a vibrant, expressive ecology in rapidly globalizing Korea. Kwon documents how historical trends, transmission practices, communal labor, and performative ritual all support this expressive ecology. The book then examines how these practices inspire meaningful, site-focused expressions of folk culture in regional, national, and transnational spaces.

Autor

DONNA LEE KWON is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Kentucky and the author of the book, Music in Korea: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (2011).

Inhalt

Acknowledgements • Introduction • Part I: Local Transmission and Ritual Performance • Chapter 1. 'In the Actual Cultural Space of Life' • Chapter 2. 'Becoming One' Through Site-Specific Intermodal Transmission • Chapter 3. Cultivating the Village, Preparing for Ritual • Chapter 4. 'Abundant Kut, Abundant Life': The Place of Ritual P'ungmul • Part II: Articulating Regional, National and Transnational Connections • Chapter 5. The madang on the Move • Chapter 6. Creative Korean Performing Arts: Attuning to the Deviating Rhythms of National Urban Spaces • Chapter 7. The Politics of Sounding Space in the Korean American Community • Conclusion • Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 11 tables, 21 figures
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: How place influences music, How place influences performance, Embodiment, Participation, Site-specificity, Performance ecology, Expressive occasion, Ritual of place, madang as metaphor,
• ISBN-10: 0-8195-0142-5 / 0819501425
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-0142-4 / 9780819501424