Stories inside Stories
Stories inside Stories
Margaret Walker Dilling
This volume is about the music in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Seoul Olympics (1988) that were watched on television by millions of people. More specifically, the book is about the planning and decisions that resulted in a remarkable presentation. As we hear Professor Dilling's account of the intentions and experience of the Korean planners and also of the sensory experience of the ceremonies, we approach an understanding of the ceremonies as a performance of "Korea."
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This volume is about the music in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Seoul Olympics (1988) that were watched on television by millions of people. More specifically, the book is about the planning and decisions that resulted in a remarkable presentation, a narrative enacted in mythic terms from Korean cosmology, archetypes from world religions, biblical imagery of origins, Olympian references, and ancient and contemporary theories of metamorphosis. As we hear Professor Dilling's account of the intentions and experience of the Korean planners and also of the sensory experience of the ceremonies, we approach an understanding of the ceremonies as a performance of "Korea." The volume uses music to fully explore the ceremonies' theme—"Beyond all Barriers"—and the event planners' interpretation of national division as a multistratified problem of global barriers.
Margaret Walker Dilling
Margaret Walker Dilling (1939–1997) was assistant professor of music at the University of California, San Diego.
Stories inside Stories (KRM 29)
Foreword by Bonnie Wade – vii
Ammadang: The Day the Drum was King – 1
Part I: Scenes
1. Performance – 19
2. Planners – 80
3. Scenario – 124
Part II: Music
4. Scores – 169
5. Ceremony – 183
6. Korean Traditional Music – 249
7. Art – 304
Part III: Voices
8. Controversies – 351
9. Perspectives – 383
10. Reviews – 445
Appendix A – 495
Appendix B – 499
Appendix C – 501
Appendix D – 503
Appendix E – 505
Appendix F – 509
Musical Examples – 525
References – 563
Index – 575
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"This is a special book. Not only does Dilling provide a wholly convincing, vivid and detailed account of how the Seoul Olympic performances came to be as they were; in the process, she reveals a wide range of the values, attitudes, philosophies and codes of behaviour that compete in modern Korea, brilliantly demonstrating how these are manifest in musical expression. Few other books do this so well." ~Simon Mills, Durham University, in Pacific Affairs (http://www.jstor.org/stable/25608948) |