Hanyang Kut
Title | Hanyang Kut PDF eBook |
Author | Maria K. Seo |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780415943611 |
Presents an analysis of the ritual music of the shamans of South Korea.
Hanyang Kut
Title | Hanyang Kut PDF eBook |
Author | Maria K. Seo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2019-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000005437 |
This volume, first published in 2002, presents a sophisticated analysis of the musical instruments, repertoires, musicians and ensembles, and symbolism of the ritual music of Shamans of Seoul, Korea. Placed firmly in a social and historical context, it shows that Shamanism, considered superstition by many today, is alive and well in Seoul in a rich tradition reaching back to the Chosôn Dynasty (1392-1910), the capital of which was Hanyang (now Seoul). The instruments, dress and other accoutrements of courtly life from the Chosôn Dynasty have been taken up, although transformed, in contemporary rituals among spirit-possessed Shamans. Through a comparison of Hanyang kut - the rituals of the Hanyang Shamans - and the ritual practice of Inner Asian Shamans, and through an analysis of the relations of spirit-possession music rituals to musok, the indigenous religion of Korea, Seo sheds light on the role of music, spiritual practice and culture in present-day Korea.
Songs of the Shaman
Title | Songs of the Shaman PDF eBook |
Author | Boudewijn Walraven |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
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The first book in the English language devoted to the study of Korean shaman songs, this book is essential reading for those with an interest in Korean shamanism, the literature and cultural history of Korea, and shamanism and oral literature in general. Shamanism, commonly regarded as the oldest religion in Korea, is still a force in the modern industrial society of today. Korean shamans, performing their rituals, sing and dance for the gods they worship as they have done for centuries.
Shaman Ritual Music in Korea
Title | Shaman Ritual Music in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Yong-sik Yi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Music |
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"The object of this dissertation is to show that Korean shaman ritual performances in their musical and textual structures are not merely mirror representations of the current sociocultural situation of Korea, but they shape the very processes of today's Korean culture. The argument is that although shamanism has been regarded as a marginalized peripheral cult for a long time, it has played a vital role in the process of re-creating and re-establishing Korean national culture." --p. ix.
Healing Rhythms
Title | Healing Rhythms PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Mills |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780754658450 |
Still today, in South Korea, many people pay for the services of mudang - the intermediaries of Korea's syncretic folk religion. The majority of mudang are called to the profession by gods and they focus on the use of spirit-power ('possession') for diagnosis and problem-solving. There is, however, a tiny minority of mudang who are born or adopted into the ritual life and who have no spirit-power. These ritualists perform conducting rituals for whole communities focusing more on the use of music, dance, and song to provide healing experiences. In this book, Simon Mills provides an in-depth analysis of the East Coast hereditary mudang institution and its rhythm-oriented music, focusing particularly on the Kim family of mudang - the government-appointed 'cultural assets' for the genre.
Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF
Title | Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel Kendall |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2009-09-01 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 0824833430 |
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.
Shaman Ritual Music in Korea
Title | Shaman Ritual Music in Korea PDF eBook |
Author | Yong-sik Yi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Folk music |
ISBN | 9788988095805 |