Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing

Contents

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . contents Preface ix Introduction 1 part one: From Straw Mat to Proscenium and Back Introduction to Part One 25 1 Locating Kinship 27 2 Gentrified 56 3 “Singing Theater” 85 4 Narrating Faith, Resistance, and Healing 114 part two: Ethnography of a Voice Introduction to Park Two 155 5 Acquiring Sori 157 6 Narrating the Interior 202 7 Negotiating Tradition, Gender, Self 214 8 The “Authentic” Audience 233 9 The Cross-Cultural Voice 245 Conclusion 273 Notes 277 Glossary 301 Bibliography 313 Index 329 ...