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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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