굿 전승의 현황과 과제

Abstract

Two questions need to be asked in terms of transmission of gut music. First, what is gut? Second, who is the main agent of transmission? Knowing what gut is, and who should transmit it will allow us to examine the current status and problems of gut music transmission and to propose assignments for it. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to find what gut is and what should be transmitted. Generally, people understand things from their stand point. It’s the same way with gut. How we recognize and accept gut will shape how it should be transmitted. Determining the extent to which gut is included will shape the model of successful gut transmission. People also have different ideas about main agent of gut transmission. It may be the performer of gut or the Cultural Heritage Administration or government-run organizations that support the performers. In addition, there may be some who believe that gut music need to be treated separately, edited by composers and professional players, into a new genre of music. Often, those who major in music will only look at music of gut. Therefore, gut research by National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts focuses on the music, and it produces music notes and music records. Due to such phenomenon, gut is considered more of a performance music, and partially used as divided contents,with its cultural context and religious belief being discarded more and more. Currently, many efforts for gut transmission do not view it as a religious act. Excluding religious faith and ritual sacredness from gut transmission, gut will be downgraded into one of many performances to watch. Gut without the meaning of religion is even losing its place among performances. Severed from enjoyers, it will be difficult to argue for its rightful place in traditional culture, and without connection with the public, it will not succeed as a performance. Among Danggolgut in Jeonnam region, Jindo sitgimgut is designated as an import intangible cultural asset No.72 and Samsulyanggut in Suncheon region is designated as intangible cultural asset No. 43 by Jeollanamdo. However, if the orientation is toward performance art with artistic completeness as its goal, the success of gut will be very difficult to accomplish. What should be transmitted from gut? We need to transmit it the way it is. We need to recognize the religions aspects of gut and come up with a way to provide its modernized version to the public. There is a need for awareness and orientation to return gut back to its enjoyers rather than recognizing it as a part of a traditional culture, and an artistic genre. When gut recovers its religiousness and the status of gut performers is rightfully recognized, the progression of musical cultural of gut and content utilization will naturally follow. Gut will survive as substrate that influences to create other art culture, demonstrating unlimited creativity.