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The AAG Review of Books, 2017
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European Journal of Korean Studies, 2020
While several historical works have explored the notion of 'communist consumption' especially in ... more While several historical works have explored the notion of 'communist consumption' especially in regards to Eastern European countries, few have looked at the relationship between consumption and the personality cult in a place like North Korea where the state has tended to respond to material shortages with ideological campaigns. This paper uses the lens of popular music to re-conceptualize the notion of consumption as not simply about "how much one consumes" but instead "what kind of things one consumes" and the consequent relation to state objectives for the national economy and political control. From around the time of the state founding in 1948 to the mid-1960s, North Korean music was largely in line with transnational principles of socialist realism, stressing the utilization of local folk forms and the tying of them lyrically to messages of industriousness and socialist construction. However, from the late 1960s when the leadership personality cult kicked into high gear, music simultaneously embraced more outside forms of music while at the same time exhibiting lyrical themes that associated particular items and experiences with a new national heritage centered on exhortations to revere Kim Il Sung and members of his family. The result was a shift in emphasis from exhibiting virtue through production to promoting loyalty through practices of consumption, and this gave impetus to the light music genre in popular music.
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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, 2013
"This paper uses the lens of Neo-traditionalism to elucidate the largely unexplored political asp... more "This paper uses the lens of Neo-traditionalism to elucidate the largely unexplored political aspect of the Chollima (or Flying Horse) Movement of North Korea. With its widespread use of a
mythical, speedy horse from China as a rallying cry to inspire workers, this late 1950s and early 1960s worker mobilization movement was above all a series of legitimacy-enhancing exercises and the primary means by which the North Korean regime preserved the hegemony of Kim Il Sung following the Korean War. The term Neo-traditionalism is reformulated to correspond with what the Chollima Movement involved: namely, the excavation and systematic reproduction of
some element of a culture’s past, the framing of that traditional element or return to some form of traditional authority as progressive or modern, and the practice of making the reprocessed fragments of tradition a pervasive and permanent part of modern culture."
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The AAG Review of Books, 2017
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European Journal of Korean Studies, 2020
While several historical works have explored the notion of 'communist consumption' especially in ... more While several historical works have explored the notion of 'communist consumption' especially in regards to Eastern European countries, few have looked at the relationship between consumption and the personality cult in a place like North Korea where the state has tended to respond to material shortages with ideological campaigns. This paper uses the lens of popular music to re-conceptualize the notion of consumption as not simply about "how much one consumes" but instead "what kind of things one consumes" and the consequent relation to state objectives for the national economy and political control. From around the time of the state founding in 1948 to the mid-1960s, North Korean music was largely in line with transnational principles of socialist realism, stressing the utilization of local folk forms and the tying of them lyrically to messages of industriousness and socialist construction. However, from the late 1960s when the leadership personality cult kicked into high gear, music simultaneously embraced more outside forms of music while at the same time exhibiting lyrical themes that associated particular items and experiences with a new national heritage centered on exhortations to revere Kim Il Sung and members of his family. The result was a shift in emphasis from exhibiting virtue through production to promoting loyalty through practices of consumption, and this gave impetus to the light music genre in popular music.
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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, 2013
"This paper uses the lens of Neo-traditionalism to elucidate the largely unexplored political asp... more "This paper uses the lens of Neo-traditionalism to elucidate the largely unexplored political aspect of the Chollima (or Flying Horse) Movement of North Korea. With its widespread use of a
mythical, speedy horse from China as a rallying cry to inspire workers, this late 1950s and early 1960s worker mobilization movement was above all a series of legitimacy-enhancing exercises and the primary means by which the North Korean regime preserved the hegemony of Kim Il Sung following the Korean War. The term Neo-traditionalism is reformulated to correspond with what the Chollima Movement involved: namely, the excavation and systematic reproduction of
some element of a culture’s past, the framing of that traditional element or return to some form of traditional authority as progressive or modern, and the practice of making the reprocessed fragments of tradition a pervasive and permanent part of modern culture."
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