Keith Howard is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow. From 2017 to 2018 he was Kent R. Mullikin Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, and before that he served as Professor and Head of Department at SOAS, and Professor and Associate Dean at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He has held visiting professorships at Monash University, Ewha Women's University, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, was editorial chair for the SOAS Musicology Series (Ashgate/Routledge) for nine years (2008-2017), and founded and managed the SOASIS CD and DVD series as well as OpenAir Radio.

An exemplary work of scholarship that is worth a read for those interested in innovative ethnomusicological approaches or any aspect of Korean music from traditional to contemporary. It is also a noteworthy contribution to the growing historical body of work on North Korea considering that Howard is well-versed in the historiography of the DPRK and as a result makes historical judgements and inferences instead of merely citing other schoars to provide context for pieces and practices of music.... It is hard to imagine something more insightful and more comprehensive than this work.

Keith Howard is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow. From 2017 to 2018 he was Kent R. Mullikin Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, and before that he served as Professor and Head of Department at SOAS, and Professor and Associate Dean at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He has held visiting professorships at Monash University, Ewha Women's University, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, was editorial chair for the SOAS Musicology Series (Ashgate/Routledge) for nine years (2008-2017), and founded and managed the SOASIS CD and DVD series as well as OpenAir Radio.

An exemplary work of scholarship that is worth a read for those interested in innovative ethnomusicological approaches or any aspect of Korean music from traditional to contemporary. It is also a noteworthy contribution to the growing historical body of work on North Korea considering that Howard is well-versed in the historiography of the DPRK and as a result makes historical judgements and inferences instead of merely citing other schoars to provide context for pieces and practices of music.... It is hard to imagine something more insightful and more comprehensive than this work.

Keith Howard is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow. From 2017 to 2018 he was Kent R. Mullikin Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, and before that he served as Professor and Head of Department at SOAS, and Professor and Associate Dean at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He has held visiting professorships at Monash University, Ewha Women's University, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, was editorial chair for the SOAS Musicology Series (Ashgate/Routledge) for nine years (2008-2017), and founded and managed the SOASIS CD and DVD series as well as OpenAir Radio.

An exemplary work of scholarship that is worth a read for those interested in innovative ethnomusicological approaches or any aspect of Korean music from traditional to contemporary. It is also a noteworthy contribution to the growing historical body of work on North Korea considering that Howard is well-versed in the historiography of the DPRK and as a result makes historical judgements and inferences instead of merely citing other schoars to provide context for pieces and practices of music.... It is hard to imagine something more insightful and more comprehensive than this work.