Voices from the Straw Mat
Subtitle: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (Hawaii Studies on Korea)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780824825119
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: general; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Korea; Folk music; Biography / Autobiography; Korean; Music; Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; Ballads, Korean; History and criticism; Pansori; P°ansori
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.