Songs for "great leaders": ideology and creativity in North Korean music and dance

'Songs for "Great Leaders" provides the first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean. The work pulls back the curtain for the first time on this famously reclusive and secretive regime.

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1. Verfasser: Howard, Keith 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:'Songs for "Great Leaders" provides the first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean. The work pulls back the curtain for the first time on this famously reclusive and secretive regime.
"North Korea is often said to be unknown: a reclusive and secretive state. It behaves as if the whole country is a theatre 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 the socialist utopia yet-to-come. Songs form the foundation stones of revolutionary operas, of instrumental and orchestral tone poems, and are rearranged in countless versions for use by children in kindergartens, for 50,000 young people who dance annually in celebration of the Eternal President's birthday, and for the 100,000 participants of mass spectacles such as the Arirang Festival. North Koreans are reminded daily on state-controlled television news how their songs are beamed around the world by satellite, and songs are today routinely uploaded to YouTube and Youku. This is the first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean. It is based on fieldwork, on interviews, and resources researched in private and public archives and libraries in North Korea, but also in South Korea, China, North America and Europe. It explores revolutionary songs written in the 1940s and pop songs from the 2010s, exploring in a critical but informed way not just songs, but also developments of Korean instruments, the creation of revolutionary operas that embed the state's ideology of juche "self-reliance", mass spectacles, dance and dance notation, and composers and compositions"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Also issued in print: 2020
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 349 Seiten) Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9780190077549
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190077518.001.0001

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