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Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea's East Coast Hereditary Shamans (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Healing Rhythms: The World of South Korea's East Coast Hereditary Shamans (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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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; their
clients are individuals or small groups 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 in large family groups, conducting rituals for
whole communities. They focus far 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. It is the first English language book to
study this tradition in any depth, using materials from fieldwork
(1999-2000) alongside interviews with two key family members, Kim
Junghee and Jo Jonghun. Throughout, Mills includes numerous quotes
from the ritualists themselves to help reveal their characters,
opinions and beliefs. He documents the family's history, the
decline of the hereditary mudang institution and its kinship
customs, and the family's changing relations towards 'outsiders'.
Mills also details ritual procedures, musical structures, playing
techniques, instruments, and learning methods both of the past and
present; as non-ritual musicians become increasingly aware of the
powerful ritual rhythms, the music is finding new life in
non-ritual settings. Downloadable audio resources featuring Kim,
Jo, and Mills accompanies the book, each track corresponding to the
equivalent chapter in the text.
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