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Court music outside the court: defining the ‘professional’ musician in nineteenth-century Bengal (2025)
Book Chapter
Williams, R. D. (2025). Court music outside the court: defining the ‘professional’ musician in nineteenth-century Bengal. In A. Morcom, & N. Raina (Eds.), Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers (112-122). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351031028-11

How did the social position of professional Hindustani musicians change over the nineteenth century? As performing artists travelled in the wake of the fall of the Mughal empire, taking their families and students with them, they adapted their forms... Read More about Court music outside the court: defining the ‘professional’ musician in nineteenth-century Bengal.

Performing Arts of North Korea (2019)
Book
Kim, H., Jeon, Y., Kim, S., Ko, S., Bae, I., Kim, C., & Cheon, H. (2019). K. Howard (Ed.). Performing Arts of North Korea. National Gugak Center

Transcultural Fandom and the Globalization of Hallyu (2019)
Book
Howard, K., Otmazgin, N., Park, G.-S., Hubinette, T., Marinescu, V., Fendler, U., Ter Molen, S. L., Keith, S., Lyan, I., Oh, I., Koo, B., Porteux, J. N., & Choi, K. J. (2019). K. Howard, G.-S. Park, & N. Otmazgin (Eds.). Transcultural Fandom and the Globalization of Hallyu. Korea University Press

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (2016)
Book
Rees, H., Kraef, O., Ingram, C., Gorfinkel, L., Maliangkay, R., Wang, Y.-F., Gillan, M., Alaszewska, J., Howard, K., & Arisawa, S. (2016). K. Howard (Ed.). Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596723

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage explores the longstanding and extensive efforts to preserve music in East Asia, documenting and charting parallels and differences in legislation and the operation of systems for preservation and conservation, an... Read More about Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions.

The Institutionalization of Korean Traditional Music (Gugak): Visible and Invisible Modes of Exchange (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, K. (2015, February). The Institutionalization of Korean Traditional Music (Gugak): Visible and Invisible Modes of Exchange. Presented at East Asian Business Ethics and History: New Institutionalism vs. Modes of Exchange, Seoul

This article explores the historical institutionalism inherent in Korea's National Gugak Centre and the circular exchange mechanisms of the gugak fraternity (schools, colleges, ensembles, orchestras, concerts). I distinguish between court and aristoc... Read More about The Institutionalization of Korean Traditional Music (Gugak): Visible and Invisible Modes of Exchange.

The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation (2014)
Journal Article
Harris, R. (2014). The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation. Ethnomusicology Forum, 23(3), 331-359. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2014.956774

How do Muslims in different parts of the world recite and how do they hear the sound of the Qur'an? What are the purposes of their recitation, and what meanings do they associate with it? In this article I analyse one ritual performance of Qur'anic r... Read More about The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation.

Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques (2013)
Book
Rettová, A. (2013). Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques. Zdeněk Susa

Sando Marteau is a musician, who lives and works in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is one of the rare Congolese poets using the Swahili language to express his art. Full of melancholy, his songs evoke the suffering and difficulties of t... Read More about Chanter l'existence : La poésie de Sando Marteau et ses horizons philosophiques.

SamulNori: Korean drums (and gongs) of affection (2012)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2012). SamulNori: Korean drums (and gongs) of affection. The world of music (Wilhelmshaven), 1(1), 15-35

SamulNori, first performed in 1978, is now both a celebrated quartet of percussionists and a genre of percussion music. This is the first of four articles to explore its contemporary manifestation and to project forward, using interview and other mat... Read More about SamulNori: Korean drums (and gongs) of affection.

East Asian Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage (2012)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2012). East Asian Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage. In K. Howard (Ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (1-22). Ashgate

An overview of legislation and practice in the preservation and promotion of music as Intangible Cultural Heritage globally, an assessment of relevant literature, and statements about the systems for preservation and promotion in China, Japan, Korea... Read More about East Asian Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Authenticity and Authority: Conflicting Agendas in the Preservation of Music and Dance at Korea's State Sacrificial Rituals (2012)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2012). Authenticity and Authority: Conflicting Agendas in the Preservation of Music and Dance at Korea's State Sacrificial Rituals. In K. Howard (Ed.), Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (113-140). Ashgate

Moving from an overview of Korea's state-sponsored preservation and promotion system for the intangible cultural heritage, this chapter explores the music and dance at the two state sacrificial rituals, the Rite to Confucius and the Rite to Royal Anc... Read More about Authenticity and Authority: Conflicting Agendas in the Preservation of Music and Dance at Korea's State Sacrificial Rituals.

'The Legend of Princess Bari' and 'A Korean Collage' (2011)
Other
Howard, K. (2011). 'The Legend of Princess Bari' and 'A Korean Collage'

A historical account of the Korean legend of Princess Bari (Pari kongju), together with an account of contemporary multi-media artistic production in the Republic of Korea.

Redefining Koreanness: North Korea, musicology, ideology, and ‘improved’ Korean instruments (2011)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2011). Redefining Koreanness: North Korea, musicology, ideology, and ‘improved’ Korean instruments. In R. Frank (Ed.), Exploring North Korean Arts (181-191). University of Wien/MAK

A discussion of North Korea's 'improved' musical instruments, developed from traditional Korean instruments, but adapted with an eye to the versatility of Western orchestral equivalent instruments. Historical and contemporary dimensions, manufacturin... Read More about Redefining Koreanness: North Korea, musicology, ideology, and ‘improved’ Korean instruments.

Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry (2011)
Book
Howard, K., & Kasmambetov, S. (2011). Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry. Brill/Global Oriental. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004218048

Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signalling its global importance. It sits... Read More about Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry.