Voices from the Straw Mat - Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (Hardcover)

From its humble "straw mat" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, p'ansori has survived centuries of change. and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. In this innovative work, Chan Park approaches this stylized storytelling tradition and celebrates her subject not as a static phenomenon but a living, organic tradition adapting to an ever-shifting context. Drawing on her extensive literary and performance backgrounds, Park provides insights into the relationship between language and music, singing and speaking, and traditional and modern reception. Her "performance-centered" approach to p'ansori informs the discussion of a wide range of topics, including the amalgamation of the dramatic, the narrative, and the poetic; the invocation of traditional narrative in contemporary politics; the vocal construction of gender; and the politics of preservation. Park creates a text that in many ways mirrors a p'ansori performance. Through the multiple voices of scholar, performer, student, teacher, and enthusiast, she reveals the richness of the tradition and its problematic position in Korean culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Hawaii Studies on Korea
Release date:	February 2003
First published:	March 2003
Authors:	Chan E. Park
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-2511-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
LSN:	0-8248-2511-X
Barcode:	9780824825119

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