Korea Lecture Series – Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: P’ansori Lecture & Demonstration

Korea Lecture Series -- Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: P’ansori Lecture & Demonstration

Chan Eung Park - Associate Professor of Korean Language, Literature and Performance Studies, Ohio State University

Monday, April 16, 2007 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 6511

Chan E. Park will share her insights into the distinctive aspects of Korea’s musical and narrative heritage with special attention to p’ansori, a form of story-singing. The exact origins of Korea’s p’ansori tradition are unclear, but it’s thought to have sprung from indigenous shaman chants. P’ansori proliferated throughout the nineteenth century, and in the 1960s was designated by the Korean government as an official intangible cultural treasure. In 2003 the art form was recognized by UNESCO.

In her lecture, Park examines the social, aesthetic and performative existence of traditional music in contemporary Korea, giving special attention to the p’ansori story-singing tradition. To a discerning ear p’ansori is a living tradition capable of bridging the past and the present, its narrative reality waiting to be unraveled.

The Korea Society is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization with individual and corporate members that is dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea. In pursuit of its mission, the Society arranges programs that facilitate discussion, exchanges and research on topics of vital interest to both countries in the areas of public policy, business, education, intercultural relations and the arts. Funding for these programs is derived from contributions, endowments, grants, membership dues and program fees. From its base in New York City, the Society serves audiences across the country through its own outreach efforts and by forging strategic alliances with counterpart organizations in other cities throughout the United States as well as in Korea.

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