Park, Mikyung
Mikyung Park was a student at UCLA in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was also a research assistant in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, where she worked with Korean materials in the Archive’s East Asian Collection. Her dissertation is entitled "Music and Shamanism in Korea: A Study of Selected Ssikkum-gut Rituals for the Dead"(1985). Park is a Professor at Keimyung University in Korea. In 2001 Park brought the Archive a compact disc of the music examples discussed in her dissertation. Five different shamans were recorded on Hindo Island, off the southern tip of Korean in 81-82. Examples on the CD can be found in her dissertation, where the texts are tranliterated and translated into English, and the music is transcribed in Western notation. The dissertation is available in both the UCLA Music Library and the Ethnomusicology Archive.
Archive call number: Tape 12062
1 audio cassette: Field recordings made by Mikyung Park
Tape accompanies Park’s dissertaion.