Last weekend’s free seminar at SOAS ranged from Silla dynasty lion dances to last month’s tour of Taiwan by BEAST, and from ancient Confucian ceremonial music to Samulnori and hip-hop via Trot. Juhae Gu introduced us to the dying musical form of Akkeuk (악극) – a form of stage musical using Trot music. It is […]
Author: Chan E Park
Selected publications
- Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing, University of Hawai'i Press 2003