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Pungmul is rooted in the dure (collective labor) [[farm|farming]] culture. It was originally played as part of farm work, on [[Culture of Korea#Festivals of the lunar calendar|rural holidays]], at other village community-building events, and in [[Korean shamanism|shamanistic]] rituals. Today it has expanded in meaning and is also used in political [[protest]] and as a performing art form.

Pungmul performers wear a variety of colorful costumes. A flowery version of the [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] ''kkokkal'' is the most common head-dress. Advanced performers sometimes wear ''sangmo'', which are hats with long ribbon attached to them that players can spin and flip in intricate patterns by moving their heads.

 

Pungmul is played in many [[Korean American]] communities across the [[United States]]. There are several community-based pungmul groups in many cities, including [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[Chicago]], [[New York City]], [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], etc. College-based groups also exist at the [[University of California]] ([[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[University of California, Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], [[University of California, Davis|Davis]], [[University of California, San Diego|San Diego]], [[University of California, Santa Barbara|Santa Barbara]]), [[Columbia University]], [[New York University]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], [[Harvard University]], [[Yale University]], the [[University of Chicago]], the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Cornell University]], the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York|University of Buffalo]], [[Syracuse University]], [[Stanford University]], and so on.

 

For the second generation of Korean-American pungmul players, who constitute a large fraction of the pungmul group, pungmul is a medium through which they can experience the cultural heritage of their parents' motherland and a way of discovering their identities and the roots. For the 1.5 generation or the recent immigrants from Korea, pungmul is a source of joy and pride about their motherland's culture. For the people from other cultural and ethnic origin, pungmul provides an easy access to learn and experience parts of Korean culture. However, Pungmul's power of bringing people together has not been fully realized yet. Even though pungmul has had much positive influence on the Korean-American community in the past, there are still many gaps that have to be bridged. The cultural and generational gap between the first and the second generations of Korean-Americans is one such example.

 

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SamulNori's degree of influence is such that the term "samul nori" now refers to a genre of music practiced by thousands of people worldwide, whose core repertoire is the four pieces on SamulNori's landmark 1983 first recording. Today, the SamulNori Hanullim organization (led by original SamulNori member Kim Duk-soo) includes several performing groups, two music schools, an instrument factory and store, and the annual World Samulnori Festival and Competition.

* [http://www.poongmul.com Poongmul in US]

 

[[Category:Korean traditional music]]

 

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