한국여성국극연구(1948〜1960) －여성국극 번성과 쇠퇴의 원인을 중심으로－

Abstract

Korean classical opera of women is derived from Korean classical opera, however, it became performing art with more elaborated and spectacular stage and set. It started right before the war started and then it disappeared suddenly after the 10 years of the period of prosperity. Because Korean classical opera of women was more focused on performance than so-ri (a traditional narrative song[ballad]), it could be fully supported by public. Based on its characteristic, Korean classical opera of women matched to public taste and that brings the result of development of Korean classical opera of women. These points made Korean classical opera of women became best grosser of the market at that period and also it firmly finds its place in the field. One of the reasons of development of Korean classical opera of women was the situation that time period faced, which is war. It was one of the way to escape from miserable reality. Another reason of development was caused by the fantasy of deviating from paternalistic society. With these ideas above, Korean classical opera of women that had its own strong place for itself, in 1960's, it falls into a decline. There were reasons for its decline and that is there were no actresses who was specialized in Korean classical opera of women, was not able to find new repertoire, did not find out how audience's urge and taste changed, movie and television boom, error of system that has absence of education in Korean traditional music and popularity of its genre. Especially Im Chun-Aeng's Korean classical opera of women was able to flourish, because it satisfied an era's desire. So if it is born again as a piece that is shaped in the form that reads the present age's desire, resurrection of Korean classical opera of women is not something that is impossible.