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Keith Howard (ed): Korean Pop Music - riding the wave

26-Aug-06
(Global Oriental, 2006) Stern(10,g) A very readable introduction to the history of Korean popular music. While the book is a collection of articles by different scholars, careful selection ensures that there's no duplication and that the coverage is chronological. And for once in a book of this nature there's evidence that the editor has actually done some editing: articles, where relevant, cross-refer to each other; footnotes direct the reader to the other articles; the articles call themselves chapters rather than papers. It's a simple enough thing to do, but so often there's no evidence that anyone apart from you has read the chapters in sequence, and no evidence that much thought has gone into putting the book together at all. Not so ...
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Marshall R. Pihl: The Korean Singer of Tales

17-Apr-06
(Harvard 1994) Stern(5,g) Read this before watching Im Kwon-Taek's Sopyonje. It's a useful introduction to Pansori styles and rhythms, and contains a translation of the Shimchong-ga, the story of Blind Man Shim and his filial daughter. A number of excerpts from this story is performed in the film and it helps to know the story a bit. Related posts:April Statistics Search terms The natural order of things was restored in...DPRK travellers’ tales Two travel accounts have recently been highlighted in the...Trot singer comes to London In a top-secret event known only to selected members of... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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