Genre

Pansori

Pansori (Korean: 판소리) is a Korean genre of musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer.

The term pansori is compounds of the Korean words pan 판 and sori 소리, the latter of which means "sound." However, pan has multiple meanings, and scholars disagree on which was the intended meaning when the term was coined. One meaning is "a situation where many people are gathered." Another meaning…

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