Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Series Preface

Introduction: Orality of Storysinging

Section I: Technique and Practice of Pansori
Chapter One: Voice, Drum, Listening Ear
Chapter Two: Jangdan, the Drummed Heartbeat of Storytelling

Section II: Historical Development
Chapter Three: 18th-19th Century
Chapter Four: Negotiating Dramatic Modernization

Section III: Beyond the 20th Century
Chapter Five: Preservation and Reinvention, Mutually
Chapter Six: ‘Singing Who You Are’: Reflections on Interpretive Bilingual Pansori-making

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

This book examines the history, theory, and practice of Korean pansori as a representative form of sung drama, using ethnographic accounts and primary literature.

About the Author

Chan E. Park is a researcher and performer of pansori, and Professor Emeritus of Korean Literature and Performance at Ohio State University, USA. Her publications include Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (2003) and Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry Series (2010-2015).

Reviews

Chan E. Park’s Korean Pansori as Voice Theatre offers a special journey into a distinctive Korean performance genre that mingles voice, rhythm, and gesture to populate and re-enliven the world of classic Korean tales. As both a scholar-ethnographer and as a seasoned performer of pansori, Park navigates a complex history, bringing her study into the present and engaging, first-hand, with some of the knotty issues at stake in heritage preservation.
*Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History*

Uniquely situated as a scholar of literature and theatre and as performer of pansori, raised in Korea, teaching at Ohio State, and lecturing and performing widely, Chan Park offers here an entrée into the world of this remarkable genre, leading us through its technical basics and history to a nuanced consideration of its place in the 21st century. An engaging and fresh take on a genre she knows intimately.
*R. Anderson Sutton, Professor of Music & Chair, Ethnomusicology Program University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA*