호남 연희의 전승 양상 연구

A Study on Traditional Aspect of Play in Honam

This thesis was written with a view to understanding the aspect being transmitting now, by illumination of Play in Honam at the cultural sight, and considering the grope for modern change and shifted use. Honam is a district that various Plays have been originated because it centers on traditional agricultural society. However, the substances of preservation of Plays have no choice but to become different because Play has the nature of spot itself which is transmitted through the public performance on the spot. Honam is now so rapidly urbanized that it shows a phenomenon of collapse of its rural community and also comes to a crisis on the preservation of Play. In this condition, 195 items of Plays have been investigated now and according to the characters, classified into 'Seasonal play' which has seasonal characteristic, 'Ordinary play' which plays in ordinary times, and 'Exorcism play' which is played according to incantatory purpose or situation. Among them 'Spring play' centers seasonally, 'Agricultural play' in daily life, 'Poong-mool play' incantatorily and the unit of transmission is on a basis of individual village. The problem in aspect of transmission is the difficulty of group performance according to decrease of rural population. The pleasant function of pure Play was lost and the will of establishment of union consciousness was disappeared. The reorganized Plays to win a prize in folklore contest are blamed for the wide deterioration from the original form. The alternative plays of shifted use run as follows : the public performance in all kinds of contests, the practical use of festivals, the organization of preservation association in the unit of village, the construction of information system for the preservation of organization in cultural contents. But we expect that these Plays in Honam will be the most valuable essence of racial traditional culture on the flood of modern culture if we preserve them well politicly and endeavor to improve interest and recognition on traditional Play because there are still many areas that Plays in the unit of village are transmitted well in Honam.