Bilingual Storysinging

Join us for a soulful evening of p’ansori, a traditional genre of dramatic narrative singing, as renowned artist and scholar Chan E. Park gives a unique interpretation of The Song of Hŭngbo in both English and Korean.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Based on one of Korea's most beloved folktales, The Song of Hŭngbo is a moral allegory that pits vice against virtue in the characters of two brothers whose fortunes are made and broken by a magic swallow. The Song of Hǔngbo is one of the five extant canonical narratives (madang) of this distinctly Korean art form. Combining narration and drama for a solo vocalist, p'ansori is a unique musical genre that was proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2003.

with

Chan E. Park
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University

About the Presenter
Chan E. Park has presented numerous lectures, seminars, workshops and p'ansori performances-locally, nationally and internationally. Her research focuses on the performance of p'ansori, particularly in transnational contexts, and on narrative/lyrical traditions in modern Korean drama. She has published extensively on the theory and practice of oral narratology, including her recent monograph, Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Singing (University of Hawaii Press, 2003). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii and is currently an associate professor of Korean language, literature and performance studies at Ohio State University.

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