SamulNori : Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture Paperback / softback
by Nathan Hesselink
Part of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE series
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In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience.
In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of tradition, one that would eventually create an entirely new genre of music and a national symbol for Korean culture.
Nathan Hesselink's "SamulNori" traces this reinvention through the rise of the Korean supergroup of the same name, analyzing the strategies the group employed to transform a museum-worthy musical form into something that was both contemporary and historically authentic, unveiling an intersection of traditional and modern cultures and the inevitable challenges such a mix entails.
Providing everything from musical notation to a history of urban culture in South Korea to an analysis of SamulNori's teaching materials and collaborations with Euro-American jazz quartet Red Sun, Hesselink offers a deeply researched study that highlights the need for traditions - if they are to survive - to embrace both preservation and innovation.
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- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:29/03/2012
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- ISBN:9780226330976
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:29/03/2012
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- ISBN:9780226330976