한국의 근대화와 한국전통춤의 자생력상실 배경

Abstract

The Cause for the Decline of Korean Traditional Dance in the Process of Modernization: A Sociological ApproachMoon-Ho Rhee (SungKyunKwan University)This article deals with the cause for the decline of Korean traditional Dance by describing the activities of "Gisaeng" under the Japanese imperialistic rule from a sociological view. Korean traditional dance has declined not at the beginning of modernization, but since the 1920s, when Japanese Imperialism has carried out the "Cultural Policies". This imperialistic policies planned as the 'hegemony strategies" has let to have the idea of "culture=modernity" and to shrink the public performances of Gisaeng. Their activities have gone into the private sphere of Korean Saloon since then, and this has resulted in crisis of Korean traditional dance. That was a violence of the culture against the traditional culture because the culture has meant only the modernity. This result gives a suggestion that not the critic of modernity, but the critic of the imperialistic policies will contribute to resurrect the traditional culture. Tradition and modernity or Oriental culture and Western culture are likely to be confronted with each other. But the confrontations are derived not from the cultures themselves. They habe been made by the hegemony strategies of Japanese Imperialism.