The Application of Music to Learning Regional Geography

지역지리 학습에 있어서 음악작품의 활용

The purpose of this paper is to explore a brief review of trends in existing geographical research on music and to analyze music by the 5 themes of geography and to explore a variety of classroom techniques which examine song lyrics for their geographic content. The results of this paper are summarized as followed : Firstly, the trends in geographical research on music can be classified into five areas, the first is on spatial diffusion in music, the second on spatial diffusion in music, the third on regional division in music, the fourth on regional characteristics in music, the fifth on pedagogical tools in the teaching of geography. Secondly, music holds numerous possibilities for regional geographical study. The lyrics of music are littered with geographical term through which song writers impart image of culture, the distinct geographical nature of music lyrics gives rise to many geographical question, also, music lyrics gives place its special character. The results of analyses by the 5 themes of geography indicate that music are useful to learning of regional geography. The application of music to learning regional geography attracts much attentions. In the respect of importance of learning new regional geography, and in the respect of adapting globalization have to be focused on this subject.

본 연구는 지구화 시대에 지역지리가 중요하계 등장한 시점에서 지역지리 학습시 음악작품을 유용하게 활용할 수 있음을 밝히는 것이 주 목적이다. 이를 위해 수업에서의 음악작품 활용방법에 대한 연구 경향과 의의를 살펴보고 지리적 기본개념에 의해 음악작품을 분석하고 교수방법으로서 실제수업모형을 제시하였다.