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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

World Music: Historical Dimensions (2018)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2018). World Music: Historical Dimensions. In C. Lawson, & R. Stowell (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music (693-695). Cambridge University Press

A Kwangdae in Training, 1981–1984: Fieldwork, and learning Korean music in Seoul and Chindo (2012)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2012). A Kwangdae in Training, 1981–1984: Fieldwork, and learning Korean music in Seoul and Chindo. Papers of the British Association for Korean studies, 14, 77-113

An exploration of fieldwork and learning music 30 years ago on a celebrated island and in Seoul, comparing development since the 1980s, and looking back to previous times.

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.

World Music: Whose Music and Whose World? (2010)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2010). World Music: Whose Music and Whose World?. Omnes, 1(2), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.15685/omnes.2010.11.1.2.1

An investigation of commercialized and commodified world music, as it existed in 2010, using industry data as well as looking at ethnomusicological criticisms. Data was also culled from an on-line forum, with commentaries on my inaugural professorial... Read More about World Music: Whose Music and Whose World?.