한국노동요의 기능과 역할 (The Function and Role of Korean Work Songs)

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· 발행기관 : 한국민요학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국민요학 / 24권 / 81 ~ 115페이지
· 저자명 : 김진순

초록

There are only some folksongs having actual function of work songs that are involved in the beat and rhythm in the field. Korean work songs are strongly emotional because most of them play roles as ‘singing plays’.
The function of folksongs is an answer to the question “Why do people song in the present moment?” The factors drawing function have been influenced by various situations of the field in which feasts with songs are being held.
This study focuses on the fact that there are much more folksongs playing an emotional role than those function as work songs, even though work songs are categorized as folksongs which occupy most part of the Korean folksongs. I examined the elements of formation of function and the embodiment of the function. The results shows that Korean work songs are based on emotional function, and the essential part of the function is to vent their emotions and get exhilarated.
That is, the group work songs are motivated to appease the pressure occurring between the physical factors in work field and internal factors of members. They are also sung as play in order to get over tedious and boring simple labor. The function of play adapted at this time is emotional, so there is a thread connection between the object that they appeases and emotional function.
The role of folksongs in the field is to promote the effect of labor by turning the field into feast combined with labor and play, and by making laborer forget the pain of working. Songs basically have amusement role and this is, in particular, remarkable in group working. Folksongs soothe the pain of simple and repetitious labor and further, they help people get over the pain by giving them new energy generated from group exhilaration. That is, the emotional function of folksongs presented in group work songs does not simply relieve the toughness and stress of labor but offers new energy created from group play.
It appears that this character of folksongs play an important role in transmission and usage of folksongs in modern society since the emotional function is the main one in Korean working songs, and exhilaration and vent are representative sentiment of our people.

영어초록

There are only some folksongs having actual function of work songs that are involved in the beat and rhythm in the field. Korean work songs are strongly emotional because most of them play roles as ‘singing plays’.
The function of folksongs is an answer to the question “Why do people song in the present moment?” The factors drawing function have been influenced by various situations of the field in which feasts with songs are being held.
This study focuses on the fact that there are much more folksongs playing an emotional role than those function as work songs, even though work songs are categorized as folksongs which occupy most part of the Korean folksongs. I examined the elements of formation of function and the embodiment of the function. The results shows that Korean work songs are based on emotional function, and the essential part of the function is to vent their emotions and get exhilarated.
That is, the group work songs are motivated to appease the pressure occurring between the physical factors in work field and internal factors of members. They are also sung as play in order to get over tedious and boring simple labor. The function of play adapted at this time is emotional, so there is a thread connection between the object that they appeases and emotional function.
The role of folksongs in the field is to promote the effect of labor by turning the field into feast combined with labor and play, and by making laborer forget the pain of working. Songs basically have amusement role and this is, in particular, remarkable in group working. Folksongs soothe the pain of simple and repetitious labor and further, they help people get over the pain by giving them new energy generated from group exhilaration. That is, the emotional function of folksongs presented in group work songs does not simply relieve the toughness and stress of labor but offers new energy created from group play.
It appears that this character of folksongs play an important role in transmission and usage of folksongs in modern society since the emotional function is the main one in Korean working songs, and exhilaration and vent are representative sentiment of our people.

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