pansori

[pahn-sawr-ee]

noun

1. a traditional type of Korean narrative song performed by a solo vocalist and a drummer.

Example Sentences

The production, conceived and directed by Ong Keng Sen, uses pansori — an ancient Korean musical storytelling style — along with K-pop to deliver the ancient Greek tragedy about the costs of war.

From New York Times

The production, performed in Korean with English subtitles, fuses the traditional Korean musical storytelling form of pansori with K-pop music.

From New York Times

He quickly decided that he would not stage one of the few extant pansori.

From The Guardian

There are only five surviving full-length pansori pieces in existence, and seven fragments.

From The Guardian

Ong says: “The thing that was attractive about the whole thing to me is that they didn’t see K-pop as something far away from pansori.”

From The Guardian