P'ansori is a typical Korean musical drama ideal, in which epic stories are narrated and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and abroad, Hikyong describes or analyzes the creative processes in p'ansori and analyzes them in her musical, cultural and social discussions, which include the evolution of p'ansori's performance, historical origins and development, texts and musical materials, stylistic features of various p'ansori schools, Knowledge, aesthetics, and changing traditional interpretations.

The complexity of the historical and contemporary influences that give p'ansori form a "living tradition" through the ages and into the present has been explored as a cultural icon with permanent and lasting emotional impact. Social, economic and political dynamics are created in the relationship between traditional feudal values ​​and colonial and national modernity. The effects of late modernity such as technology, media, migration and globalization have led to the transfer of p'ansori into digital and transnational domains.

By combining all these creative and contextual processes together, Heikeng Um explains how tradition is created, maintained and redefined through the dynamic interaction of factors, values, meanings, strategies, identities, and artistic spelling.

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