This thesis aims to analyze the lylics of the Japga Yukjabaegi, which was widely enjoyed by the public in the early modern times, and to read off social and cultural history of the time. All of printed Japga collections and gramophone records of the t...
This thesis aims to analyze the lylics of the Japga Yukjabaegi, which was widely enjoyed by the public in the early modern times, and to read off social and cultural history of the time. All of printed Japga collections and gramophone records of the time, where the lyrics of the Japgas were contained, were reviewed in order to find out those of the Japga Yukjabaegi, which was enjoyed in the first half of the 20th century, and as a result, it was possible to find a total of fifty-one Yukjabaegi lyrics consisting of thirty-six ones from the printed Japga collections and fifteen ones from the gramophone records. In addition, the fifty-one Yukjabaegi lyrics were analyzed after classifying them into three types according to their content and aspects.
First type is the Yukjabaegi influenced by traditional folk songs and is characterized by containing trace of the Jeolla-do folk song Yukjabaegi, which became a prototype of the Japga Yukjabaegi, in its lyrics. Thirteen Yukjabaegi lyrics fall into this type and are only found in the printed Japga collections. Second type is the popular Yukjabaegi of the time and is characterized by largely adopting lyrics from other popular Japgas of the time. Fifteen lyrics fall into this type and are only found in the printed Japga collections. Third type is the created Yukjabaegi, and a total of twenty-three lyrics consisting of eight ones from the printed Japga collections and fifteen ones from the gramophone records fall into this type. This is characterized by being made with an addition of some of the lyrics from the Yukjabaegi influenced by traditional folk songs and the popular Yukjabaegi of the time to the newly created Yukjabaegi. Most of the twenty-three lyrics belonging to this type are included in each edition without being overlapped.
Moreover, it was possible to get a glimpse of the social culture of the time through an analysis of the lyrics of the Japga Yukjabaegi enjoyed in modern times in this way. What I was able to get a glimpse of were that the prototype enjoyed earlier was used as an important factor when Japgas were created to gain popularity among the public at the time, that there were people who led and influenced the flow of the Japgas, popular songs at the time, and that one fixed type did not continue, but a new type of recreation was constantly attempted.
The social ans cultural aspects of the time discovered in this way are very similar to the situation where content is created by people today. In particular, the fact that an attempt to create new content is made based on the prototype gives many implications for content production using classics. Furthermore, it is of great significance that it lets us know the fact that we can understand Japgas only when we look at them as one of popular culture categories of the time.