Stepping in the Madang
Sustaining Expressive Ecologies of Korean Drumming and Dance
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819501400
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2024
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 11 tables, 21 figures
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780819501417
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2024
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 11 tables, 21 figures
Description:
Site-specific expressive ecologies sustain Korean folk culture in a globalizing world/>/>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.