An edition of Voices from the Straw Mat (2003)
Voices from the Straw Mat
Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (Hawaii Studies on Korea)
By Chan E. Park
Publish Date
March 2003
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Language
eng
Pages
345
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.