The Audience as a Force for Preservation: A Typology of Audiences for the Traditional Performing Arts

CEDARBOUGH T. SAEJI

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The Audience as a Force for Preservation: A Typology of Audiences for the Traditional Performing Arts

Korea Journal / Korea Journal, (P)0023-3900; (E)2733-9343

2016, v.56 no.2, pp.5-31

https://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2016.56.2.5

CEDARBOUGH T. SAEJI (Korea University)

CEDARBOUGH, T. S. (2016). The Audience as a Force for Preservation: A Typology of Audiences for the Traditional Performing Arts. Korea Journal, 56(2), 5-31, https://doi.org/10.25024/kj.2016.56.2.5

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The Republic of Korea’s robust system for protection of traditional performing arts has insulated the traditional arts, ensuring that a population of master artists continued to practice their arts even as Korea rapidly modernized. This protection allows people in twenty-first century Seoul to attend performances of raucous mask dance dramas, evocative epic songs, and sedate literati ensembles. However, do they? The audience for Korean traditional arts is eroding, but ample government support has removed artists and venues from the urgency of attracting new and younger audiences. This article describes reception techniques of traditional performance that are dying out in Korea, proposes an audience typology, and discusses the varied challenges of attracting and maintaining an audience. Although examples are taken from Korea, parallels exist in other countries and with other genres around the world.

keywords: Audience, Korean heritage, future of traditional performance, protection of tradition, performing arts, cultural heritage policy

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