Buan Farmers’ Music

Nongak refers broadly to the music played by farmers organised into a ture, a cooperative group formed for a village's communal labour, performed on percussion instruments such as the kkwaenggwari (small gong), jing (large gong), janggu (hourglass drum) and buk (barrel drum). Buan Nongak, a type of Honam Udo Nongak [farmers' music of the plains, western districts of the Honam region], combines the features of Honam Udo Nongak with those of Gyeongnam Nongak and Gyeonggi Nongak in equal measure, so that its music, dance and games form a thoroughly rounded whole. Its rhythms, too, sit midway between Honam Udo Nongak and Gyeongsang-do Nongak, producing many lively, vigorous melodies. Na Mo-nyeo, the current holder of the skill in Buan Nongak, is a sangsoe, the performer who directs the whole farmers' band through the rhythms of the gong, and her dance movements and their composition are varied and full of technical flair. Her gong sound has been described as one that moves the spirits, and her movements have been compared to the mature artistry of a fairy-maiden dance.

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Where it is

Region

Buan, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Intangible Heritage · 시도무형유산