ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses various elements of p'ansori, including its performance, history, music and text, as well as schools and individual styles, aesthetics, p'ansori in diaspora and new p'ansori. In the diagram, the 'field of p'ansori' refers to the area of interacting individuals directly involved in the creative process of music-making in p'ansori. The processes of performance and transmission are linked to each other inasmuch as the stylistic conventions of the schools influence the performance style of individual singers. The process of composition is influenced by the process of transmission in the sense that stylistic conventions prescribe the process of composition in terms of text, music and gesture. Colonialism, modernity and social change created the contexts in which p'ansori articulated different strands of nationalism. The majority of Korean scholars take the nostalgic view that p'ansori reached its zenith in the late nineteenth century.
