P’ansori: Oral Tradition through Music & Literature

Details: Tuesday, November 04 , 2014 | 9:00 AM

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About the Speaker: 2014-11-04 09:00:00
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Event Link:   Robert C. Provine is Emeritus Professor in the School of Music at the University of Maryland. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Music, M.A. in Regional Studies (East Asia), and the Ph.D. in Music, all from Harvard University. As a graduate student, he won the Charles Seeger Prize of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and he received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant and the John Knowles Paine Travelling Fellowship. He researches the music of East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan), with a particular focus on Korean traditional music and a disciplinary emphasis on historical ethnomusicology. He taught from 1978 to 2000 at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom, where he rose from Lecturer to full Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, and where he helped organize two Durham Oriental Music Festivals (1979 and 1982). He served as Newsletter editor (1983-88), Secretary (1983-84), Vice-President (1984-85, 1991-93), and President (1993-95) of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe during his time in Durham. More recently, he served as President of the Association for Korean Music Research (1996-2000) and on the annual conference program committee of the Society for Ethnomusicology (1999), and currently he is a member of the editorial board of Acta Koreana and the editorial advisory board of Korean Studies. He contributed the country article “Korea” and numerous shorter entries to the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001). He is the author of Essays on Sino-Korean Musicology: Early Sources for Korean Ritual Music (1988), a co-editor of the East Asia volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (2002), and he has written several dozen articles in varied academic journals.   David R. McCann is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and former director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, grants, and fellowships, including the Order of Cultural Merit award (2006), one of the highest decorations by the Korean government, and the Manhae Prize in Arts and Sciences (2004). His books include Azaleas (Columbia University Press, 2007), Enough to Say It’s Far (Princeton University Press, Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 2006), Traveler Maps: Poems by Ko Un (Tamal Vista Press, 2004), The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry (2004), Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions (2001), and several co-edited volumes, including War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (2001) and The Classical Moment: Views from Seven Literatures (1999). Not only a renowned translator of major Korean poets but also a recognized poet, he has published his own poems in such distinguished journals as Poetry, Ploughshares, Descant, and Runes. His poem “David” was included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology III. His new book of poems The Way I Wait For You was released by Codhill Press in 2007, and he has a collection of sijo poems, a Korean verse form, forthcoming from Bo-Leaf Press.   Ann Lee earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University, and a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University.  She taught at the University of Southern California, U.C. Berkeley, Loyola Marymount, the University of Washington, and Kyung Hee University. Dr. Lee also received a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies to translate Korean literature.
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Proclaimed a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by UNESCO in 2003, p’ansori is a narrative vocal tradition usually featuring a solo singer and single drummer. Dr. Robert Provine explores the origins of the genre, and highlights the well-known story of Ch'unhyang. Dr. David McCann discusses the poetic nature of p’ansori. Dr. Ann Lee leads a classroom activities workshop with lesson plans to empower educators. Supported by the Freeman Foundation.

Free event, early registration requested. Please register here or contact Luz Lanzot for more information.

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