한국전쟁 직후 남북한 전통음악연구 배경과 양상

Abstract

This paper examined a comparison of Korean traditional music study in South and North Korea, and investigated under which background, on which contents and by which researchers the study has been done through the bibliography of South and North Korea in the 1950s. Although South and North Korea have been divided into two systems with different ideology, they had been faced with the common task for an abolition of the colonial view of history and a cultivation of the nationalistic view of studies. South and North Korea, however, had a divergent tendency in respect to the relation of nation and scholar; in South Korea the study has been driven by some scholars' individual will and in North Korea by nation. In South Korea, the research had been mainly concentrated in musical documents and old scores. Therefore, the study on folk music had been done relatively less than the study on court music. While this kind of research was called a positive historical methodology receiving a favorable evaluation in later generations, it had a limitation that it was not appropriately combined with archaeology, folklore, historical studies, etc. On the other hand, North Korea studied more about ancient music history, translation works of old musical documents, and more intensively, folk music including folk songs and ch’anggŭk 唱劇 (lit. singing drama) based on the field work under the research policy of the Institute of Sciences.