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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"><b>SOAS Korean
SamulNori Percussion Summer School</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">SOAS World Music
Summer School at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is
proud to present its first ever Korean SamulNori Percussion Summer
School. It will take place at SOAS on July 17-21, 6-9pm (NB: we may
reschedule to one day later, to July 18-22; please check our website)
. The course will be run by the dynamic Dulsori percussion troupe.
Dulsori (literally "wild beat") troupe was formed in 1984 in order
to preserve and promote Korean traditional art forms in a contemporary
context. This energetic and passionate troupe has staged hundreds of
international performances and recently toured in Hong Kong,
Singapore, Japan, Australia, Africa and across
Europe.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Bring your family and
friends and join our Circle Dance with music from Dulsori and summer
school participants in Russell Square, London WC1H on Friday 21 July,
7.30pm.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">To book a place on the
Korean SamulNori Percussion Summer School; tel 020 7898 4515 or visit
our website at</font> <a
href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/summermusicschool"><font
face="Arial">www.soas.ac.uk/summermusicschool</font></a><font
face="Arial"> and follow the instructions on how to book.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">SamulNori is the
contemporary form of traditional rural percussion bands (nongak,
p'ungmul) stretching back into antiquity. Today, SamulNori is the most
popular style in the Korean traditional music scene, equally at home
in the countryside or on urban stages, part of the student-led revival
of interest in heritage but featuring complex rhythmic pieces. Today
there are several professional SamulNori bands and hundreds of amateur
bands. The rhythmic structure is based on model cycles, changdan,
elaborated through variants known as karak. The repertory splits into
two parts: one performed seated and the other danced. There are four
core instruments: the double-headed hourglass drum changgo, small
hand-held gong kkwaenggwari, barrel drum puk and large hand-held gong
ching. Performing SamulNori involves imbibing an aesthetic frame tied
to Daoism and shamanism, in which the body and body movement become
one with the instruments. The quartet of instruments, and the music
itself, is said to create balance in the cosmos, combining yin and
yang, lightening and thunder, wind and rain, and the four
seasons.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Usha Ginda</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Events Coordinator, Department of Music,
SOAS</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London, WC1H 0XG</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tel: 020 7898 4515, Fax: 020 7898
4519</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>email: <a
href="mailto:sg@soas.ac.uk">ug</a>2@soas.ac.uk</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>web: <a
href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/summermusic">www.soas.ac.uk/summermusic</a
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<div><font size="-2" color="#000000">Dr Keith Howard<br>
Reader in Music, SOAS,<br>
Director, AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance<br>
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG<br>
Tel: 020 7898 4687; Mobile: 07815 812144; Fax: 020 7898
4519</font></div>
<div><font size="-2" color="#003300">Website:
http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/kh/</font></div>
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