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Segara Madu: Balinese gender wayang (2018)
Digital Artefact
Gray, N. (2018). Segara Madu: Balinese gender wayang. [mp3]

A performance by the group Segara Madu (Nick Gray and Paula Friar) of four pieces from the Balinese gender wayang repertory: Sekar Ginotan, Partha Wijaya, Segara Madu and Rebong. Recorded at SOAS, December 2018.

K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image (2018)
Journal Article
Howard, K., & Lekakul, G. (2018). K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image. Culture and empathy, 1(1-4), 18-33. https://doi.org/10.32860/26356619/2018/1.1234.0003

Assessments of the impact of K-pop beyond Korea, and of other aspects within the broader Korean Wave, often focus on groups of fans. The research reported here began from an intention to move beyond fandom, encouraged by a challenge to demonstrate th... Read More about K-Pop as a Means to an End among Thai Youth: Korean Wave as Costume, Food, and Image.

Boko Haram (2018)
Book
Kendhammer, B., & McCain, C. (2018). Boko Haram. Ohio University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tpdz

From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world’s most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram’s bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond th... Read More about Boko Haram.

Afterword (2018)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2018). Afterword. In B. Norton, & N. Matsumoto (Eds.), Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives (278-284). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315393865-14

Discourse on music as heritage has too often evaded the challenge of maintaining performance and creation, the factors that define artistic practice, and has instead concentrated on documentation, collecting, and archiving. Museums had or were establ... Read More about Afterword.

The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage (2018)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2018). The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage. In D. G. Hebert (Ed.), International Perspectives on Translation, Education, and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Studies (35-55). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68434-5_3

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 differ... Read More about The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Korean Music : Definitions and Practices (2018)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2018). Korean Music : Definitions and Practices. In R. Strohm (Ed.), Studies on a Global History of Music (198-219). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315163970-10

For Keith Howard’s comprehensive survey of Korean music, categorisation and terminology are essential approaches, for example in setting two separate points of departure in the ‘Little’ and the ‘Great’ traditions. He then illustrates the practices an... Read More about Korean Music : Definitions and Practices.