Voices from the Straw Mat : Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing / Chan E. Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Chan E., author.

Series:

Hawaiʻi studies on Korea.

Hawai'i Studies on Korea

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Korea--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Ballads, Korean--Korea--History and criticism.

Ballads, Korean.

P'ansori--History and criticism.

P'ansori.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One: From Straw Mat to Proscenium and Back

Introduction to Part One

1. Locating Kinship

2. Gentrified

3. "Singing Theater"

4. Narrating Faith, Resistance, and Healing

Part Two: Ethnography of a Voice

Introduction to Park Two

5. Acquiring Sori

6. Narrating the Interior

7. Negotiating Tradition, Gender, Self

8. The "Authentic" Audience

9. The Cross-Cultural Voice

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

about the author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-327) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824865504

0824865502

OCLC:

878137419