SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Howard, Keith (2015) Korean Musical Instruments: A Practical Guide. Seoul: Minsokwon.

Howard, Keith (2015) SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World. Farnham: Ashgate. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Howard, Keith (2020) Songs of "Great Leaders": Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance. New York: Oxford University Press.

Howard, Keith and Kasmambetov, Saparbek (2011) Singing the Kyrgyz Manas: Saparbek Kasmambetov's Recitations of Epic Poetry. Folkestone, Kent: Brill/Global Oriental.

Kendhammer, Brandon and McCain, Carmen (2018) Boko Haram. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Orsini, Francesca and Butler Schofield, Katherine, eds. (2015) Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge, UK: Open Books.

Howard, Keith and Ingram, Catherine, eds. (2020) Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia. Abingdon: Routledge. (SOAS Studies in Music)

Howard, Keith, ed. (2019) Performing Arts of North Korea. Seoul: National Gugak Center. (Korean Musicology Series)

Book Chapters

Howard, Keith (2018) 'Afterword.' In: Norton, Barley and Matsumoto, Naomi, (eds.), Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 278-284. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Howard, Keith (2017) 'Blowing and Hitting: Music for Korean Envoys.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), Celebrating Art and Music: The SOAS Collections. London: SOAS University of London, pp. 218-231.

Howard, Keith (2012) 'Canonic Repertoires in Korean Traditional Music.' In: Um, Haekyung and Lee, Hyunjoo, (eds.), Rediscovering Traditional Korean Performing Arts. Seoul: Korean Arts Management Service, pp. 88-97. (The Apro)

Howard, Keith (2016) 'Christianity and Korean Traditional Music.' In: Reily, Suzel Ana and Dueck, Jonathan, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 629-648.

Howard, Keith (2020) 'The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North.' In: Howard, Keith and Ingram, Catherine, (eds.), Presence Through Sound : Music and Place in East Asia. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 102-117. (SOAS Studies in Music)

Howard, Keith (2018) 'Korean Music : Definitions and Practices.' In: Strohm, Reinhard, (ed.), Studies on a Global History of Music. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 198-219. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Howard, Keith (2018) 'The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage.' In: Hebert, David G., (ed.), International Perspectives on Translation, Education, and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Studies. Heidelberg: Springer Nature, pp. 35-55.

Howard, Keith (2014) 'Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage.' In: Bithell, Caroline and Hill, Juniper, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Revival. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 135-159.

Howard, Keith (2016) 'SamulNori: Sustaining an Emerging Korean Percussion Tradition.' In: Schippers, Huib and Grant, Catherine, (eds.), Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures: An Ecological Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 239-270.

Howard, Keith (2019) 'Writing Hallyu, Defining Fandom.' In: Howard, Keith, Park, Gil-sung and Otmazgin, Nissim, (eds.), Transcultural Fandom and the Globalization of Hallyu. Seoul: Korea University Press, pp. 231-256.

Howard, Keith, Park, Gil-sung and Otmazgin, Nissim (2019) 'Preface.' In: Howard, Keith, Park, Gil-sung and Otmazgin, Nissim, (eds.), Transcultural Fandom and the Globalization of Hallyu. Seoul: Korea University Press, pp. 5-7.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'North India.' In: Church, Michael, (ed.), The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, pp. 139-159.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Schofield, Katherine Butler, (eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Wood, Abigail (2008) 'E-Fieldwork: A Paradigm for the Twenty-first Century?' In: Stobart, Henry, (ed.), The New (Ethno)Musicologies. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, pp. 170-187.

Journal Article

Bello, Saheed Adesumbo (2023) 'Ọ̀rúnmìliàn Film-Philosophy: Aesthetics of Èjìgbèdè Ẹ̀kú in Saworoidẹ.' Film and Philosophy: The Journal of the Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts., 27. pp. 89-103.

Duran, Lucy (2014) 'Toumani and Sidiki: reviving ancient strings.' Songlines, 100.

Ekinci, Mehmet Uğur (2012) 'The Kevserî Mecmûası Unveiled: Exploring an Eighteenth-Century Collection of Ottoman Music.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 22 (2). pp. 199-225.

Gray, Nick (2019) 'Ardhanariswara: A Composition-as-Research Project for String Quartet and Dance.' Brief Encounters, 3 (1). pp. 102-107.

Harris, Rachel (2014) 'The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 23 (3). pp. 331-359.

Holzapfel, Andre, Benetos, Emmanouil, Killick, Andrew and Widdess, Richard (2022) 'Humanities and Engineering Perspectives on Music Transcription:.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37 (3). pp. 747-764.

Howard, Keith (2012) 'Jindo: Creating a cultural paradise.' Chindo hakhoe ch'angnim 10-chunyôn kinyôm. pp. 13-28.

Howard, Keith (2012) 'A Kwangdae in Training, 1981–1984: Fieldwork, and learning Korean music in Seoul and Chindo.' Papers of the British Association of Korean Studies, 14. pp. 77-113.

Howard, Keith (2015) 'Politics, Parodies, and the Paradox of Psy's 'Gangnam Style'.' Romanian Journal of Social Sciences, New Series, 1. pp. 13-29.

Howard, Keith (2013) 'Politik der Musik: Koreanische vs. Westliche musik in Korea.' Kultur Korea, 1 (1). pp. 4-6.

Howard, Keith (2020) 'Special Section: North Korean Popular Culture.' European Journal of Korean Studies, 19 (2). pp. 1-128.

Howard, Keith (2016) 'The institutionalisation of Korean traditional music: problematic business ethics in the construction of genre and place.' Asian Pacific Business Review, 22 (3). pp. 452-467.

Howard, Keith and Laforgia, Paola (2017) 'Amer Liu, K-Pop Tomboy.' Kritika Kultura, 29. pp. 214-231.

Howard, Keith and Lekakul, Great (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). pp. 18-33.

Li, Gordon C. (2021) 'From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: the rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites.' The British Journal of Sociology, 72 (3). pp. 514-530.

McCain, Carmen (2022) 'Censorship, citizenship and cosmopolitan unity in Muslim and Christian creative responses to repression in northern Nigeria.' Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 92 (5). pp. 739-758.

Popescu, Tudor, Widdess, Richard and Rohrmeier, Martin (2021) 'Western listeners detect boundary hierarchy in Indian music: a segmentation study.' Scientific Reports, 11. p. 3112.

Conference or Workshop Items

Howard, Keith (2013) The Foundation of Hallyu – K-Pop's Coming of Age. In: First World Congress for Hallyu Studies, 18-19 October 2013, Korea University, Seoul.

Howard, Keith (2013) The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage. In: Conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies, August 2013, Bergen. (Unpublished)

Howard, Keith (2010) A little world music is a dangerous thing, a lot of ethnomusicology is even worse. In: Cultural Diversity in Music Education International Symposium, January 2010, University of Sydney.

Monographs and Working Papers

Howard, Keith, Walker, Kim and Pallo, Imre (2011) 20 Years After the Dawkins Review: Tertiary Music Education in Australia. Sydney, Australia: Global Access Partners.

Book Reviews

Howard, Keith (2014) 'The Korean Popular Culture Reader, by Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, eds.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77 (3). pp. 643-644.

Howard, Keith (2014) 'The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 77 (3). pp. 644-646.

Howard, Keith (2013) 'Review of Donna Lee Kwon, 'Music of Korea'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76 (1). pp. 186-187.

Howard, Keith (2018) 'Review of Hyunjoon Shin and Seung-Ah Lee, eds, Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 81 (1). pp. 183-185.

Howard, Keith (2013) 'Review of Joshua Pilzer, 'Hearts of Pine'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 76 (1). pp. 182-184.

Howard, Keith (2015) 'Review of JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay, eds, 'K-Pop – the International Rise of the Korean Music Industry'.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 24 (2). pp. 298-300.

Howard, Keith (2016) 'Review of Korea: The Art of Sinawi (Inedit).' Songlines, 115 . p. 63.

Howard, Keith (2013) 'Review of Nathan Hesselink, 'SamulNori'.' Journal of Asian Studies, 72 (1). pp. 213-215.

Howard, Keith (2015) 'Review of Nicholas Harkness, Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea.' American Anthropologist, 117 (3). pp. 608-609.

Howard, Keith (2016) 'Review of: Yi Ji-suk, Corée du Nord: Chants traditionnels/North Korea: Traditional Songs (Ocora).' Songlines, 114 . p. 59.

Howard, Keith (2016) 'Yu Kyung-hwa, Corée: l’art du sanjo de cheolhyeongeum (Inedit).' Songlines, 115 . p. 63.

Audios

Gray, Nick (2018) Segara Madu: Balinese gender wayang. UNSPECIFIED. [Audio]

Howard, Keith, Maltsev, Mihail and Borisova, Stepanida (2008) Stepanida: Vocal Evocations of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia (1). SOASIS. [Audio]

Kasmambetov, Saparbek, Howard, Keith and Glasgow, Jerry (2009) Saparbek Kasmambetov: Singing the Kyrgyz Manas. SOASIS. [Audio]

Romanova, Valentina, Howard, Keith and Maltsev, Misha (2008) Chyskyyrai: Vocal Evocations of Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia (2). SOASIS. [Audio]

Films

Sendra Fernandez, Estrella (2014) Diabel Cissokho: the story of a griot. Estrella Sendra. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCWrCcbqD7E&featur....

Other

Howard, Keith (2013) 'Kim Young-gil: The Art of the Ajaeng Sanjo [Audio CD review].' Songlines, 90 . p. 81.

Howard, Keith (2015) 'Review of Ahn Sung-woo, Corée: L’Art du sanjo de daegeum/Korea: The art of the daegeum sanjo.' Songlines, 107 . p. 71.

Howard, Keith (2012) 'Review of Dulsori, Korean Drums – Binari: Well Wishing Music.' Songlines (84).

Howard, Keith (2012) 'Review of Gagok (female), Pungnyu (Akdang Eban ADSACD610).' Songlines (83).

Howard, Keith (2012) 'Review of Jongmyo Jeryeak/Ritual Music for the Royal Ancestors.' Songlines (81).

Howard, Keith (2015) 'Review of Kim Wol-ha, Corée: Chants lyriques Gagok/Korea: Gagok Lyircal Songs.' Songlines, 107 . p. 71.

Howard, Keith (2009) 'Review of Musique du pays du matin clair (Musique du Monde 3017908).' Songlines (59).

Howard, Keith (2011) 'Review of Sanzo (Akdang Eban ADSACD 004, 005, 281).' Songlines (78).

Howard, Keith (2012) 'Review, Chôphwagunsaeng.' In: Chôphwagunsaeng. Seoul. pp. 2-5.

Howard, Keith (2011) ''Tradition and Myth' and 'Korean Instruments'.' Edinburgh International Festival.

Howard, Keith (2013) 'Vocals and Percussion from Hahoe and Kyongju [Audio CD review].' Songlines, 90 . p. 81.