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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)]

SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture [With CD (Audio)]

Hesselink, Nathan

Paperback

Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Korean HistoryMusic Instruction: PercussionWorld Music

ISBN10: 0226330974
ISBN13: 9780226330976
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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