Korean 5400 Syllabus 1
Korean 5400-0100: Performance Traditions of Korea
Class No. 17197 & 17198, 3 Credits, Autumn 2018 Time: Mondays, 2:15-5:00 pm Place: Derby Hall 030 Instructor: Chan E. Park (Ohio State University)
Korean 5400 at Ohio State University is a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary course combining the hands-on workshop and theoretical discourse of Korean narrative and musical tradition. By means of systematic inquiry of the traditional performative expressions remaining today, the course seeks to enable students to acquire a deeper understanding of the continuity of people, history, and civilization of Korea and beyond. The course is built with a comprehensive survey of the vocal, dance, and instrumental performances on the one hand, and workshop/performance of regional folk songs and the indigenous circle dance known as ganggangsullae, Korean Intangible Cultural Asset No. 8 (1966), also entered the 2009 list of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The course addresses the key questions in arts and humanity: How does the shifting mode of communication from orality to literacy and technology affect the performative heritages existentially? What could be the relationship between tradition and preservation, and between traditional performativity and our modern/contemporary consciousness? In what way could a traditional performance transform or alter our ways of thinking?
Korean 5400 welcomes Korean majors and minors, graduate and undergraduate students interested in performance, ethnicity, cultural studies, music, theater, storytelling, literature, folklore, anthropology, Asian, Asian-American, and Korean culture and civilization. Vocal and percussive music enthusiasts are welcome. Knowledge of beginning level Korean is helpful, and interested students with no Korean language background are also welcome.
Course Format
The course builds on lecture, discussion, workshop, and presentation. Students closely follow the weekly reading and practice.
Required texts and tools
• Chan E. Park. Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. (Available in electronic book version at OSU Libraries) • Download readings from the course page on Canvas.
Grading
• 2 written exams: on lectures, terminologies, concepts, and readings, 20% Korean 5400 Syllabus 2
• Performance workshop, efforts, preparation, participation, 20%
• Performance participation, 10% (November 17, McConnell Arts Center)
• Essays, 20%, 4 entries of 400 words each: each entry must have a theme and theoretical impact or thought acquired from the workshops and performance experience): 2 on select articles; 2 on the training and performance.
• Final paper, 20%: 1500 words w/ separate bibliography: title, abstract & conclusion, with consistent citation). (*Graduate students must submit a paper length of 2500 or more words.)
• Attendance and participation, 10%. This category is measurement of your overall quality of presence in the course.
• You have the allowance of 2 absences. Please save them for emergencies or sicknesses. Except prolonged illnesses or other dire cases, 2 final grade points will be deducted from your 3rd absence.
Course Grade
93-100 A 90-92.9 A- 87-89.9 B+ 83-86.9 B 80-82.9 B- 77-79.9 C+ 73-76.9 C 70-72.9 C- 67-69.9 D+ 63-66.9 D 62.9 ~ E
Academic Misconduct
Students are advised to adhere to The Ohio State University's Code of Student Conduct (http://studentaffairs.osu.edu/resource_csc.asp), with particular reference here to "Academic misconduct." The University's policies on academic misconduct will be enforced in accordance with Faculty Rule 3335-5-54. Academic misconduct is defined as "any activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the university, or subvert the educational process, (see section 3335-23-04 Prohibited conduct.)” which includes, but not limited to, cases plagiarism and dishonest practices in connection with examinations.
Disability Services
Any student who feels she or he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the coordinating instructor privately to discuss your specific needs. Please contact the Office for Disability Services (614-292-3307) in room 150 Pomerene Hall to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Korean 5400 Syllabus 3
Weekly Course Plan
Week 1, No class yet!
Week 2, August 27: Court music, history & philosophy Read: • Muller, Max ed. Section One in “Book 17: Yo Ki or Record of Music,” in Sacred Books of the East, Volume 28. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885: 92-105. • Byong Won Lee, “History,” and So Inhwa, “Court Music,” in Music of Korea, Korean Musicology Series 1, 5-29.
o Course introduction o Scheduling of student presentation: response to reading o Discuss the key words, “performance,” “tradition,” “preservation,” “orality,” & acquisition of oral tradition, performative context, social, ritual, and recreational.
Week 3, September 3, Labor Day, no class
Week 4, September 10: Folk music, vocal and instrumental Read: • Inok Paek, “Folk Music: Vocal,” in Music of Korea, Korean Musicology Series 1, 65-91, • Nathan Hesselink, “Folk Music: Instrumental,” in Ibid., 93-104 • Turner, Victor. From Ritual to Theatre. PAJ Publications, 1982: 52-60.
Week 5, September 17: Professionalization of folk Read: • Keith Howard, “Professional Music: Instrumental”, Korean Musicology Series 3, 127-143. • Lee Bo-Hyung, “A Theory of the Formation of Sanjo in Korean Music Culture,” in Perspectives on Korean Music Vol. 2: 1-10.
Week 6, September 24: Korean dance, between ritual and entertainment Read: • Yong-Shik Lee, “Religious Music: Shamanism,” in Korean Musicology Series 1, 159-169. • Kim Chae-hyeon, “History of Korean Dance”, in Dance of Korea, Korean Musicology Series 6, 41-78
o Midterm exam 1.
Week 7: October 1: Yeonhui, variety, dramatic, outdoor acts Read: • Jeong Hyeong-ho, “Introduction to Korean Yeonhui History, Korean Musicology Series 7, 53-97.
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• 2:00-3:30 pm, folk song workshop 1, Ohio Union Danceroom, basement.
o 3:30 pm, return to classroom for lecture and discussion.
Week 8: October 8: Namsadang acts Read: • Son Taedo, “Traditional Play Troupe Types and Activities,” in Korean Musicology Series 7, 135-151
o 2:00-3:30 pm, folk song workshop 2, Ohio Union
o 3:30pm, return to classroom.
Week 9: October 15: Masked dance drama Read: • Jeon Kyung-wook, “The History and Types of Korean Mask Dramas” in Korean Musicology Series 7, 155-201.
o 2:00-3:30pm, folk song workshop 3, Ohio Union
o 3:30pm return to classroom.
Week 10: October 22
o 2:00-3:30pm, folk song workshop 4
o 3:30pm return to classroom and take Midterm exam 2
Week 11: October 29: Improvisationality in traditional performativity
• Chan Park, “Wind, Stream, and Improvisationality of Korean Music Practice,” in Perspectives on Korean Music Vol. 1, 2010: 61-76 • Anthony T. Rauche, “Improvisation: Musical Process and Intellectual Practice,” in Perspectives on Korean Music Vol. 1, 2010:113-120
o 2:00-3:30pm, folk song workshop 5
o Performance workshop essay 1, in class presentation.
Week 12: November 5: Traditional performativity existentially Read: • Chan Park, “It Takes a Village,” in Perspectives Vol. 2, 2011: 41-66
o 2:00-3:30pm, Folk song workshop 6
o Performance workshop essay 2, in class presentation. Korean 5400 Syllabus 5
Week 13: November 12: Veterans’ Day, No class.
November 14, 2-3:30pm, Ohio Union Danceroom, 1st Ganggangsullae dance practice, with Ms. Go Mikyoung. Try your best to attend.
Week 14: November 19: Read: • Chan Park, Voices from the Straw Mat, 1-22 • Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy. Routledge, 1982, 2002:5-15.
o Final paper proposal due.
o Singing and Ganggangsullae rehearsal 1
Week 15: November 26: Reading o Honko, Lauri, ed. Thick Corpus, Organic Variation and Textuality in Oral Tradition. Finnish Literature Society. Helsinki, Studia Fennica, Folkloristica 7: Nordic Network of Folklore, 2000: 3-28.
o Singing and Ganggangsullae rehearsal 2
November 28: 2:00-3:30pm Ohio Union Danceroom final practice Try your best to attend.
November 29: Performance of the 5th Annual Wind and Stream, McConnell Art Center 7 pm
Week 16: December 3:
Final paper presentation. Limit your presentation to 7 minutes, to be followed by questions and answers up to 5 min.
Submit your paper by December 9 Sunday, Midnight: Email your paper to me.
Reference Readings: (*Final paper citations should include at least 3 from this list.)
Foley, John Miles edited. http://journal.oraltradition.org
…….. The Singer of Tales in Performance. Indiana University Press, 1995.
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Hesselink, Nathan ed. Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the 20th Century and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley Press, 2002.
Howard, Keith. Bands, Songs, and Shamanistic Rituals: Folk Music in Korean Society. Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch, 1989.
Hufford, Mary, ed. Conserving Culture: A New Discourse of Heritage. University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Killick, Andrew. In Search of Korean Traditional Opera: Discourses of Ch’anggûk. University of Hawaii Press, 2010.
Lord, Albert Bates. Epic Singers and Oral Tradition. Cornell University Press, 1991. …….. The Singer of Tales. Harvard University Press, 1960.
Nettl, Bruno. The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Niles, John D. Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Pihl, Marshall R. Korean Singer of Tales. Harvard University Press, 1994.
Schechner, Richard and Willa Appel eds. By Means of Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Schechner, Richard and Mady Schuman eds. Ritual, Play, and Performance. The Seabury Press, 1976.
Shils, Edward. Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Song Bang-song (Song Pangsong). The Sanjo Tradition of Korean Kômun’go Music. Seoul: Jung Eum Sa (Chôngûmsa), 1986.
Van Erven, Eugene. “Resistance Theatre in South Korea,” in The Playful Revolution. Indiana University Press, 1992.
Wilson, Michael. “Acting and Storytelling” in Storytelling and Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Bauman, Richard ed. Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Marranca, Bonnie & Gautam Dasgupta eds. Interculturalism & Performance. PAJ Publications, 1991: 27-37.