SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World - SOAS Studies in Music 1st edition

SamulNori is a percussion quartet that has given rise to a genre, of the same name, which is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and professional samulnori groups. There is a canon of samulnori pieces, closely associated with the first founding quartet but played by all, and many c