ACTA KOREANA, VOL. 12, NO. 1 (15 JUNE 2009)

ARTICLES

"Yongdong Nongak": Mountains, Music, and the SamulNori Canon
By Nathan Hesselink 1-26

Korean Fusion Music on the World Stage:
Perspectives on the Aesthetics of Hybridity
By R. Anderson Sutton 27-52

A Case Study on the Perception of the Wonhyong (Original Form) of Local Music in Korea
By Kwon Hyunseok 53-71

The Melodic Framework of Sanjo - Focusing on a Comparison
of Chinyangjo in Kayagum Sanjo and Komun'go Sanjo
By Kim Hae Sook 73-121

An Etymological Study of the Origin of Ancient Korean Music
Based on "Sori (Sound)" and "Norae (Song)" as Derivatives of "Sin (God)"
By Kim Yangdong 123-145

Kim Hongdo's Depictions of Commoners' Manual Labor and Their
Possible Inspiration from Illustrations in Song Yingxing's Tian gong kai wu
By Saehyang P. Chung 147-167

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

"Mallow Gardens" and "Corpses" by P'yon Hye-yong
Translated by Cindy Chen
Introduced by Bruce Fulton 169-199

INTERVIEWS

An Interview with Professor Yi Hyegu
Conducted and translated by Yeonok Jang 201-216

An Interview with P'yon Hyeyong
Conducted and translated by Cindy Chen 217-222

BOOK REVIEWS

Korean Kayagum Sanjo: A Traditional Instrumental Genre
By Keith Howard, Chaesuk Lee, and Nicholas Casswell
Kevin Parks 223-228

Transformation in Twentieth Century Korea
Edited by Chang Yun-Shik and Steven Hugh Lee
Will Pore 228-233

The Korean War: A Historical Dictionary
By Paul M. Edwards
James E. Hoare 233-235

Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun
By Park Je-chun, trans. Ko Chang Soo
Scott Swaner 235-237

OBITUARY

In Memoriam: Professor Mikhail Nikolaevich Pak
(June 21, 1918 - April 16, 2009)
Vladimir Tikhonov 239-242