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Korean Mask Dance by Tong-il Cho
ISBN: 9788973006410
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Contents: Genesis and Evolution of Korean Mask Danco -- Names and Origins - Rural Dance, Vagrant Dance, Urban Dance - Facts about Urban Dance - Significance of Succession - A Comparative Study of Ground Principles: 1. What is the Issue? - 2. Drama of Catharsis - 3. Drama of Rasa - 4. Drama of Sinmyongpuri - 5. Four Characteristics. (Link is to WorldCat.)
Tal and Talchum by Nan-sook Kang
ISBN: 9788963257358
Publication Date: 2011
Masks are called tal in Korean, but they are also known by many other names such as gamyeon, gwangdae, chorani, talbak and talbagaji. Korean masks come with black cloth attached to the sides of the mask designed to cover the back of the head and also to simulate black hair.
Talchum is a form of drama featuring the wearing of masks, singing and dancing.
It was originally a regional term only applied to mask dances traditional to Hwanghae Province. The tradition of mask dance is found throughout the Korean Peninsula and each regional variation displays distinctive characteristics. (Link is to WorldCat.)

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Dance Drama, Mask—Korea
Topic overview.Korean mask dance drama, t'alch'um (sandae nori), dates back to prehistoric Korean shaman rituals. Mask dance dramas were performed to propitiate the spirits during the agricultural year, repel evil, honor ancestors, and ensure bountiful harvests. Today, the dance dramas, in reality, short skits, are a combination of music, dance, song, and narrative combined with humor. Author: Noelle O'Connor. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson, vol. 2, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002, p. 248. Gale eBooks.

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Masks & the Mask Dance
Explanation of the different types of traditional mask dance performances in Korea, including the Mask dances performed as part of shamanic rituals (Seonanggut Talchum), the Mask dances of five clowns (Ogwangdae), the Mask dances performed in an open field (Yaryu or Deulloreum), the Mask dances from the Seoul and Gyeonggi Province areas (Sandae Nori), the Mask dances from Hwanghae Province (Haeseo Talchum), and the Lion dance performances (Saja Noreum). Includes discussion of basic themes and movements of mask dances, with one section devoted to Talchum movements. Presented by korea.net - the official website of the Republic of Korea.

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A performance of a traditional Korean mask dance, Songpa Sandae Noli, North Korea, 1962 - Britannica ImageQuest The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns two-letter codes for country-coded top-level domains in Internet addresses. (See link to full country code list below.) These codes follow the ISO 2-alpha codes assigned by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) under its standard ISO 3166 in nearly all cases.

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