This paper is a study on farmer’s songs while he engages in rice farming in the Yongmong-ri village
Deoksan-myeon Jincheon-gun North Chungcheong province. The Yongmong-ri farmer’s songs are made up of four
songs; a song of removing a rice seedling...
This paper is a study on farmer’s songs while he engages in rice farming in the Yongmong-ri village
Deoksan-myeon Jincheon-gun North Chungcheong province. The Yongmong-ri farmer’s songs are made up of four
songs; a song of removing a rice seedling from the seedbed, a song of planting the rice seedling, a song of
weeding out and a song of harvesting the rice. This paper inquired into the features of the telling in the songs by
dividing it into two parts of external and internal ones. The Yongmong-ri farmer’s songs have their vocalism in the
style of leading and following chorus, with unique features in their rhythm which farmer’s songs in the mid-region
of North Chungcheong province have. The telling of the Yongmong-ri farmer’s songs is mostly about a pray for
a good harvest, a respect for the old and a filial piety, an affection for their hometown and an encouragement of
agriculture, and contains contents to make farmers exhausted by farming forget their fatigue and to amuse them.