한국침례신학대학교 도서관

Tradition, Protestantism, and identity- [e-book]

서명/저자: Tradition, Protestantism, and identity - [e-book] / The Koreanization of Protestant church music in South Korea

초록/해제: 요약 : This dissertation explores the Koreanization of Protestant church music in South Korea, utilizing Korean traditional music as a guidepost that has demonstrated the ambivalence of the “Korean” and the “Christian” identities over the last one hundred and twenty years. I compare the initial rejection of Korean traditional music by Korean Christians with their later approval of it, and regard this change in attitude as the result of the construction of a new identity, driven by encounter, conflict, and negotiation between the two different cultural sites of “Korean” and “Christian.” This study not only provides a diachronic overview of church music, featuring the influence on Korean society of Protestant hymns as “Western music” as well as highlighting earlier attempts at creating Koreanized church music, but also presents a synchronic examination of the musical practice of kugak ch'anyang or Koreanized church music in the present day. Combining theological, socio-political, cultural, and musical research, and, in particular, drawing upon the study of nationalism, this work recognizes Korean nationalist movements as influential and fundamental forces that have determined Korean Christians' attitudes toward traditional music and its application in the church, by which the shift in Korean Christian identity has been represented over time.