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</style><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 5<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">8</span>th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on <u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">Tues</span>day, May 1</u><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">6th</span> at 6:</u><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">0</span>0 pm in Room </u><u><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">702</span></u> of New Millennium Hall<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO"> at Yonsei University</span>. The speaker will be<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO"> Ewha Woman’s University Professor</span>, <strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">Heather Willoughby</span></strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> H<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">er</span> talk will be "<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">This Ain’t Your Granny’s P’ansori… Or is it?:</em></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span>Continuity and Change in Contemporary Performance Practices</em></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">.</span></strong><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span>The abstract of h<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">er</span> paper can be found at the end of this email. </font></p>
<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, the discussion, and the reception. Contact Cedar Bough Saeji at 016-525-3239, </font><a href="mailto:umyang@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">umyang@gmail.com</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> for further inquiries.
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<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Dotum"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Hyuk-Rae Kim
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Korea's solo narrative art form, <em>p’ansori</em>, is well-known for its prevalent use of harsh and raspy vocal timbres. In recent years, however, there has been a noticeable trend among some singers to refine the tone qualities. This is accomplished not only though the alteration of vocal production itself, but also by adding (Korean and/or Western) instrumental accompaniment. My early research on <em>p’ansori</em> examined timbre as a cultural and ideological system, concentrating on how the harsh vocal qualities are used to express emotions such as lament, suffering, and grief – as encapsulated in the indigenous concept of <em>han</em>. This paper will compare my original findings with recent research on the timbral changes of <em>p’ansori</em>. By extension, I will also investigate whether or not the softening of the tone qualities has also affected the underlying emotions expressed in the genre. This topic is of interest because in addition to transforming the sound production in the newly created performances, the traditional story lines are also often limited to the more humorous or pleasant episodes of the <em>p’ansori</em> tales, thereby eliminating not only the harshness of sound, but the depiction of the harshness of life as well.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-fareast-language: KO">
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Hyuk-Rae Kim, Ph.D. in Sociology<BR>
Professor, Korean Studies Program<BR>
Director, Institute for Modern Korean Studies<BR>
Graduate School of International Studies<BR>
Yonsei University<BR>
Seoul, 120-749 KOREA<BR>
Office Tel: +82-2-2123-4705 Fax: +82-2-392-3321<BR>
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Mobile: 010-4710-4705<BR>
E-mail : hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr/ imks@yonsei.ac.kr<BR>
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