Keith Howard

Keith Howard
SOAS University of London | SOAS · School of Arts

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The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. Broadcasters use this power to promote distinct cultural traditions, popularize new music, and engage diverse a...
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North Korea is often said to be unknown: a reclusive and secretive state. It behaves as if the whole country is a theater that projects itself through performance. 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 t...
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Chapter 3 is the second of two chapters that outline and analyze the development of North Korea’s kaeryang akki —updated “improved” or “reformed” versions of traditional musical instruments. It extends the discussion of Chapter 2, critiquing the underlying ideology, which holds that Korean instruments should match Western counterparts, but that Wes...
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Suk-Young Kim: K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance. xi, 275 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978 150360599 2. - Volume 82 Issue 1 - Keith Howard
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Rather than the objects housed in museums, it is the intangible cultural heritage, as it is performed and presented, that allows the past to live. And, by making the past live, we attempt to sustain our identity, or, as academics, we interpret difference, in an effort to challenge the hyper-real consumerism of our post-modern condition, and to coun...
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Janet Poole: When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea. (Studies of the Westhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University.) xiv, 286 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. £41.50. ISBN 978 0 231 16518 1. - Volume 79 Issue 1 - Keith Howard
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The world of kugak, Korean traditional music, has today assumed a timeless quality. It is an important part of Korea’s national identity, sponsored by the state both to key institutions and through the elevation of iconic genres to Important Intangible Cultural Property status. This paper uses the lens of new institutionalism to explore the constru...
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This article reflects on the contemporary phenomenon of ‘world music’, exploring how the commodified genre has developed and been marketed since the 1980s, and the implications that the genre has both for academic studies of music and culture and for the continuing sustainability of local music and cultural diversity. The article starts with a disc...
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For the last one hundred years, the dominant music culture in Korea has been Western. Nonetheless, kugak, traditional Korean music, stands for “Korea” in tourist brochures and on countless Internet sites, in historical films and TV dramas, and in the great majority of academic articles and books by musicologists and ethnomusicologists. This chapter...
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KimMike: Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country. xvi, 239 pp. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. £15.99. ISBN 978 0 7425 5620 1. - Volume 72 Issue 3 - Keith Howard
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ClaytonMartinZonBennettMusic and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s: Portrayal of the East, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. (Music in 19th-Century Britain.) xvii, 347 pp. ISBN 978 0 7546 5604 3. £60 - Volume 71 Issue 3 - Keith Howard
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Mu-ga: The Ritual Songs of the Korean Mudangs. Compiled and edited by ImSok-J ae. Translated by HeymanAlan C.. Fremont, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 2003. x, 364 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Shaman Ritual Music in Korea. By Yong-ShikLee. Korean Studies Dissertation Series, no. 5. Edison, N.J., and Seoul: Jimoondang International, 2004. xix, 330 pp. $31.0...
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ALLEN CHUN, NED ROSSITER and BRIAN SHOESMITH (eds): Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos and Aesthetic Industries. (ConsumAsiaN Series.) xviii, 219 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £65. - - Volume 68 Issue 1 - KEITH HOWARD
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CHAN E. PARK: Voices from the straw mat: toward an ethnography of Korean story telling. (Hawai‘i Studies on Korea.) xii, 338 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. $44. - - Volume 67 Issue 1 - KEITH HOWARD
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This article surveys over three hundred scholarly works that examine music and Buddhism, published in twelve different languages. As ethnographic and historical research broadens our knowledge of Buddhist musical cultures, inquiries into specific research topics bring both Buddhism and Buddhist music into sharper focus, particularly when pursued fr...
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StokesMartin (ed.): Ethinicity, identity and music: the musical construction of place. (Ethnic Identities Series.) x, 212 pp. Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg, 1994. £14.95 (p.d.). - Volume 61 Issue 1 - Keith Howard
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Throughout history many regimes have attempted to control culture, recognising that the creative powers of artists can threaten or strengthen state authority. Control is typically considered most useful in the production of art for the popular, mass market, although high exemplary specialised forms are also subject to manipulation. Until the demise...
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examination of Chindo bands demonstrates rhythmic modelling in local village rituals. Rhythmic models are usually described in terms of shibi ch'ae, but I make a distinction between these simple patterns and the more complex marches and dances that typify musicians who today play primarily for entertainment. Professional musicians do retain root mo...
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One of the major difficulties in planning logistics strategies is the problem of assessing the impact on inventory. Often questions will arise concerning the impact of certain alternative decisions on inventory as a whole, such as: How much inventory will we need to serve a new market? How much investment in inventory would we save, if we reduced o...
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A major problem facing many organisations is that of variety. If the product line is extensive then in addition to the need to minimise turnover for a given level of sales and at the same time maintain acceptable service levels other questions arise. For example: What contributions to sales are made by slow-moving items? What are the implications o...

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