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).

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Orality of StorysingingSection I: Technique and Practice of PansoriChapter One: Voice, Drum, Listening EarChapter Two: Jangdan, the Drummed Heartbeat of StorytellingSection II: Historical DevelopmentChapter Three: 18th-19th CenturyChapter Four: Negotiating Dramatic ModernizationSection III: Beyond the 20th CenturyChapter Five: Preservation and Reinvention, MutuallyChapter Six: ‘Singing Who You Are’: Reflections on Interpretive Bilingual Pansori-making ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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).

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Orality of StorysingingSection I: Technique and Practice of PansoriChapter One: Voice, Drum, Listening EarChapter Two: Jangdan, the Drummed Heartbeat of StorytellingSection II: Historical DevelopmentChapter Three: 18th-19th CenturyChapter Four: Negotiating Dramatic ModernizationSection III: Beyond the 20th CenturyChapter Five: Preservation and Reinvention, MutuallyChapter Six: ‘Singing Who You Are’: Reflections on Interpretive Bilingual Pansori-making ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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).

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.

• List of FiguresList of TablesSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Orality of StorysingingSection I: Technique and Practice of PansoriChapter One: Voice, Drum, Listening EarChapter Two: Jangdan, the Drummed Heartbeat of StorytellingSection II: Historical DevelopmentChapter Three: 18th-19th CenturyChapter Four: Negotiating Dramatic ModernizationSection III: Beyond the 20th CenturyChapter Five: Preservation and Reinvention, MutuallyChapter Six: ‘Singing Who You Are’: Reflections on Interpretive Bilingual Pansori-making ConclusionBibliographyIndex