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The music of North Korea includes a wide array of folk, popular, light instrumental, political, and classical performers. Beyond patriotic and political music, popular music groups like Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble and Moranbong Band perform songs about everyday life in the DPRK and modern light pop reinterpretations of classic Korean folk music. Music education is widely taught in schools, with President Kim Il Sung first implementing a program of study of musical instruments in 1949 at an orphanage in Mangyongdae.[1] Musical diplomacy also continues to be relevant to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with musical and cultural delegations completing concerts in China[2] and France[3] in recent years, and musicians from Western countries and South Korea collaborate on projects in the DPRK.[4][5]
- ^ Cathcart, Adam (2008-09-01). "Song of Youth: North Korean Music from Liberation to War". North Korean Review. 4 (2): 99–100. doi:10.3172/nkr.4.2.93. ISSN 1551-2789.
- ^ "Music, diplomacy, and dictatorship: North Korean concerts in Beijing | NK News – North Korea News". 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ Cathcart, Adam (Fall 2013). "North Korea's Cultural Diplomacy in the Early Kim Jong-un Era" (PDF). North Korean Review. 9 (2): 29–42. doi:10.3172/NKR.9.2.29. JSTOR 43908918.
- ^ "Making friends in the new North Korea". 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ "South Korean K-pop stars perform for Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang". The Guardian. Reuters. 2018-04-01. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-06.