Voices from the Straw Mat : : Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing / / Chan E. Park.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Park, Chan E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Hawai'i Studies on Korea
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part One: From Straw Mat to Proscenium and Back --; Introduction to Part One --; 1. Locating Kinship --; 2. Gentrified --; 3. "Singing Theater" --; 4. Narrating Faith, Resistance, and Healing --; Part Two: Ethnography of a Voice --; Introduction to Park Two --; 5. Acquiring Sori --; 6. Narrating the Interior --; 7. Negotiating Tradition, Gender, Self --; 8. The "Authentic" Audience --; 9. The Cross-Cultural Voice --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; about the author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824865504; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824865504
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chan E. Park.

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.