This book is more interested in defining and defending ”biblical truth” than in a cross-cultural and comparative analysis of Korea shamanism and Korean Christianity from the history of religion or phenomenology of a religious point of view. The author sets out the criteria for judging the value of traditional Korean religions and spirituality from the Christian point of view: ”In other wo…
This volume documents how identity has been negotiated by musicians, composers and audiences. Until recently, references to tradition were common and, by critics and musicologists, required. Western music increasingly encroached on the market for Korean music and doubts were raised about the future of any music identifiably Korean.
In this book, Keith Howard provides the first comprehensive analysis in English of the system. He documents court music and dance, Confucian and shaman ritual music, folksongs, the professional folk-art genres of p’ansori (’epic storytelling through song’) and sanjo (’scattered melodies’), and more, as well as instrument making, food preparation and liquor distilling – a good perfor…