SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226330969 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 12 Jun 2012 |
DEWEY: | 786.8162957 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 201 |
Weight: | 422g |
Height: | 235mm |
Width: | 156mm |
Spine width: | 17mm |