Korean performing arts

Introduction
Three Kingdoms period
Great Silla period
Koryŏ period
Chosŏn and modern periods
After World War II

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Korean performing arts

Written by

James R. Brandon

Professor of Drama and Theatre, University of Hawaii, at Manoa, Honolulu. Author of Theatre in Southeast Asia and others.

James R. Brandon

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History

Korean performing arts, the dance and theatre arts of Korea, tied from the earliest records to religious beliefs and customs. These date to 1000 bce, and they describe magnificently costumed male and female shamans who sang and danced to musical accompaniment, drawing the heavenly spirits down to earth through their performance. Virtually all have complicated genealogies. For more than 700 years, until 668, in the kingdom of Koguryŏ, embracing what is now northern Korea and...

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