| SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)] Contributor(s): Hesselink, Nathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226330974 ISBN-13: 9780226330976 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $33.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - History | Asia - Korea - Music | Musical Instruments - Percussion |
| Dewey: 786.816 |
| LCCN: 2011027200 |
| Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Korean |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hesselink, Nathan: - Nathan Hesselink is professor of ethnomusicology at the University of British Columbia. He is the editor of Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond. |