<Articles>Korean Folklorist SONG Seok-ha and the development of local arts (folk performing arts) in 20th century Korea

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  • 韓国・朝鮮民俗学者宋錫夏における郷土芸術（民俗芸能）の展開
  • カンコク ・ チョウセン ミンゾクガクシャ ソウ スズ ナツ ニ オケル キョウド ゲイジュツ(ミンゾク ゲイノウ)ノ テンカイ

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The Korean Folklore Society (founded in 1932) was an epock-making in the history of folklore studies in Korea. In considering this, the issue of local arts and entertainments cannot be avoided. The Korean Folklore Society has been dominantly considered to a kind of the same boat both the colonialist Japanese researchers and the cultural nationalist Koreans riding on. However, its reality was more complex as recent studies by Nam, Kun Wu 南根祐 and Lee, Hun Sang 李勛相 have shown. To understand local arts and entertainments in the period, it would be important to understand not only the folklorists, but also the Korean Governor-General (Imperialist authorities), local communities, performing artists, and mass journalism and their structural relationships. This paper focuses on SONG Seok-ha 宋錫夏, who was heavily involved in local arts and entertainment during this period. SONG was influenced by the “The Folk Dance and Folk Song festival” in Japan and took part of the management of the “The Korean Folk Dance and Folk Song festival” and other events in Korea. While his effort based on his academic conscience and pride for the Korean culture, it cannot be overlooked that he was also involved complicity with the colonial power and mass journalism which sought to reorganize the countryside by making local arts and entertainment “harmless”.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 118 39-59, 2021-11-30

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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