Hanyang Kut
Subtitle: Korean Shaman Ritual Music from Seoul
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415943611
Subjects: Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Shamanism; Music/Songbooks; Music; Korea; Anthropology - General; General; Religious - General; Music / Ethnic; Ethnic; Reference; Folk music; History and criticism; Korea (South)
First sentence: The deafening sounds of cymbals and drums, the mudang's fierce looking face, colorful banners, twirling knives and swords in the air-these are my recollections of a kut (ritual) that I attended in North Korea when I was six years old.