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Songs for "Great Leaders" - Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance (Hardcover)
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Songs for "Great Leaders" - Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance (Hardcover)
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Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a
theatre that projects itself through music and performance. The
first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any
language other than Korean, Songs for "Great Leaders" pulls back
the curtain on this theatre for the first time. Renowned
ethnomusicologist Keith Howard moves from the first songs written
in the northern part of the divided Korean peninsula in 1946 to the
performances in February 2018 by a North Korean troupe visiting
South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. Through an
exceptionally wide range of sources and a perspective of deep
cultural competence, Howard explores old revolutionary songs and
new pop songs, developments of Korean instruments, the creation of
revolutionary operas, and mass spectacles, as well as dance and
dance notation, and composers and compositions. The result is a
nuanced and detailed account of how song, together with other music
and dance production, forms the soundtrack to the theater of daily
life, embedding messages that tell the official history, the
exploits of leaders, and the socialist utopia yet-to-come. Based on
fieldwork, interviews, and resources in private and public archives
and libraries in North Korea, South Korea, China, North America and
Europe, Songs for "Great Leaders" opens up the North Korean regime
in a way never before attempted or possible.
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