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In search of Korean traditional opera : discourses of chʻanggŭk /
This is the first work on Korean opera in a language other than Korean. Its subject is ch'angguk, a form of musical theatre that has developed over the last hundred years from the older narrative singing tradition of p'ansori. The book examines the history and current practice of ch'a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Studies of the International Center for Korean Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Discourses of Tradition
- Sources and Resources
- Overview of the Book
- Terminology, Romanization, and Other Conventions
- Chapter One A Night at the Korean Opera
- Getting There
- Preliminaries
- Ch'angguk Begins with P'ansori
- The Drama Unfolds
- Lovers United
- and Parted
- Enter the Villian
- The Hero Returns
- Curtain Calls
- Chapter Two Origins and Origin Myths
- Ch'angguk's Origins: The Standard Story
- Theater before Theaters: Drama in Premodern Korea
- Musical Storytelling: P'ansoriA Comparative Context: Hybrid-Popular Theater and the Colonial Encounter
- The Advent of Commercial Theaters
- The First Ch'angguk?
- The Myth Defended
- Conclusion: To Show Something of This Country to Foreigners
- Chapter Three Ch'angguk in Colonial Korea
- Ch'angguk in the Wake of the Won'gaksa
- Hyomnyulsa Touring Variety Troupes
- Male and Female Companies in Seoul
- Causes of Decline
- Cultural Nationalism and the Conditions for Revival
- The Choson Songak Yon'guhoe
- The War Years and Historical Ch'angguk
- Conclusion: The Colonial Legacy in Ch'anggukChapter Four Women's National Drama
- National Music and National Drama
- Emergence and Heyday
- Decline
- Revival and Transformation
- Conclusion: In Search of Women's National Drama
- Chapter Five Inventing a Tradition? The National Changgeuk Company of Korea
- Ch'angguk at the National Theater of Korea
- P'ansori Purism and the Ch'angguk Chongnip Wiwonhoe
- Ho Kyu and the Performer-Audience Relationship
- Ch'angguk at the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts
- Kang Hanyong and the Abolition of the NarratorInto the Twenty-First Century
- Conclusion: How Traditional Is Korean Traditional Opera?
- Chapter Six Stories and Themes: What Is Ch'angguk About?
- A Heterogeneous Canon: Operas from the Standard P'ansori Stories
- Ch'unhyang and the Discourse of Han
- Bodily Penetration as National Metaphor
- Penetration and Resistance in Newly Composed Ch'angguk
- Conclusion: Genre as Discourse
- Chapter Seven Constructing the Nation through Sound: The Music of Ch'angguk
- Musical Resources from P'ansori
- P'ansori Music in Ch'anggukDiegetic Music and Musical Eclecticism
- Conclusion: Musical Unity and National Unity
- Chapter Eight Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates follow page 128.