Songs for Great Leaders: Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance

by Keith Howard

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190077514
• ISBN13: 9780190077518
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"