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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press

ISBN-10082482511X

ISBN-139780824825119

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038428711

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameVoices from the Straw Mat : Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectGenres & Styles / Folk & Traditional

TypeTextbook

AuthorChan E. Park

Subject AreaMusic

SeriesHawai'i Studies on Korea Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight23.7 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-011991

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal782.42162/957

SynopsisFrom 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberML1751.K7P4 2003