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The Discourse of Regional Dance Festivals as Cultural Diversity Education

  • The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
  • Abbr : KRSDS
  • 2019, 74(2), pp.1-21
  • DOI : 10.16877/kjds.74.2.201906.1
  • Publisher : The Korean Society for Dance Studies
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Dance
  • Received : February 27, 2019
  • Accepted : June 10, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

Jeong, Ok Hee 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study expands the discourse of regional dance festivals in Korea, and examines its value as cultural diversity education. Amongst various festivals, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork at two major dance festivals in Korea, Andong Maskdance Festival and Cheonan World Dance Festival in 2017. I observe that, while radical in eliminating the distinctions between folklore, fakelore, and folklorimus, these festivals are rudimentary in presenting cultural diversity due to the emphasis of ‘1 nation= 1 culture’ ideology. In order to function as an arena for cultural diversity education, regional dance festivals should adopt the concept of curatorship that concerns what people experience in those events and how disparate subjects can interact with and understand each other.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.