Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780824825119)

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.

Author: Chan E. Park
ISBN-10: 082482511X
ISBN-13: 9780824825119
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2003
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.30w x 1.09d