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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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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: SamulNori
• Subtitle: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture
• Author: Nathan Hesselink
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780226330976
• ISBN: 0226330974
• ID: 04545838
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 156 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. March 2012

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