Pages 77-113 – Keith Howard – ‘A Kwangdae in Training, 1981–1984- Fieldwork, and Learning Korean Music in Seoul and Chindo’

I was not a sensible teenager. I wanted to become a musician, or perhaps a composer, despite my parents calling in heavy support from careers advisers briefed of the need to shift my sights towards law or accountancy. Such stories are commonplace amongst musicians and musicologists. Indeed, here, I take my title from one who was steered towards a career in journalism, Kim Myŏnggon, who recorded hi...