The first full-length book to introduce Korean drumming and dance to the English-speaking world, Nathan Hesselink’s P’ungmul offers detailed descriptions of its instrumentation, dance formations, costuming, characters, teaching lineages, and the complexities of training. Hesselink also evaluates how this tradition has taken on new roles and meanings in the twentieth and early twenty-first c…
This book deals with the dances that were traditionally performed in the Royal courts and among ordinary people, the dance that were put on stage before and after the country’s liberation in 1945, as well as the Korean dances that are performed on the international stage. Therefore, this book is written with intention of building a bridge beetwen the present and past roots of traditional Kore…
This book is introduction to Korean mask dance. It explain briefly what Korean mask dance is all about and explores its roots as a form of drama. The two tasks may at first seem incompatible but readers need to understand the essence of this unique form of drama if they are to enjoy it properly, instead of just looking at it with fleeting curiosity.