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Learn about the Korean buk (double-headed barrel drum) by watching and listening to a man play the type of buk that accompanies pansori narrative singing.
There were originally 12 madang, or song cycles, in the pansori repertoire. However, only five of these cycles are still performed in the 21st century.1