Korean Musical Drama: P'ansori and the Making of Tradition in Modernity

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Dec 23, 2013 - Music - 272 pages
P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and its diasporas, Haekyung Um describes and analyses the creative processes of p’ansori, weaving into her discussion musical, social and cultural aspects that include the evolution of p’ansori performance, origins and historical development, textual and musical materials, stylistic features of different p’ansori schools, transmission of knowledge, aesthetics, and changing interpretations of tradition.
 

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Performance
11
origins and histories
33
text and Music
57
2a first interpretation of chinyang changdan
70
schools and styles
101
Western school
105
individual styles
123
aesthetics
151
Pansori in Diaspora
167
new Pansori
181
Making Pansori
207
Bibliography
223
selected Discography Filmography and Compositions
241
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Haekyung Um is Lecturer in Music and a member of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool. She specialises in the Asian performing arts, focusing on Korea and its diasporas. Her current research includes the global reception of Asian popular culture and Indian classical music in Britain.

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