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((More citations needed|date=October 2019))[[File:Drumming children.jpg|300px|thumb|North Korean children performing for tourists at Chonsam Cooperative Farm near [[Wonsan]]]]
The '''music of North Korea''' includes a wide array of folk, hip-hop, light instrumental, political, and classical performers. Beyond patriotic and political music, popular 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]].<ref>((Cite journal |last1=Cathcart |first1=Adam |date=2008-09-01 |title=Song of Youth: North Korean Music from Liberation to War |journal=North Korean Review |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=99–100 |doi=10.3172/nkr.4.2.93 |issn=1551-2789))</ref> Musical diplomacy also continues to be relevant to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with musical and cultural delegations completing concerts in [[China]]<ref>((Cite web |title=Music, diplomacy, and dictatorship: North Korean concerts in Beijing ((!)) NK News - North Korea News |url=https://www.nknews.org/2019/01/music-diplomacy-and-dictatorship-north-korean-concerts-in-beijing/ |date=2019-01-31 |language=en-US |access-date=2019-10-06))</ref> and [[France]]<ref>((Cite journal |last1=Cathcart |first1=Adam |date=Fall 2013 |title=North Korea's Cultural Diplomacy in the Early Kim Jong-un Era |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80373/1/North%20Korean%20Cultural%20Diplomacy.pdf |journal=North Korean Review |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=29–42 |doi=10.3172/NKR.9.2.29 |jstor=43908918))</ref> in recent years, and musicians from Western countries and South Korea collaborating on projects in the DPRK.<ref>((Cite news |date=2013-01-03 |title=Making friends in the new North Korea |language=en-GB |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20773542 |access-date=2019-10-06))</ref><ref>((Cite news |agency=Reuters |date=2018-04-01 |title=South Korean K-pop stars perform for Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/01/south-korean-k-pop-stars-perform-for-kim-jong-un-in-pyongyang |access-date=2019-10-06 |issn=0261-3077))</ref>

==''Taejung kayo''==
After the [[division of Korea]] in 1945 and the establishment of North Korea in 1948, revolutionary song-writing traditions were channeled into support for the state, eventually becoming a style of patriotic song called ''[[taejung kayo]]'' (((Lang|ko|대중가요))) in the 1980s<ref name="iias">((Cite web |title=Pop music of Asia |url=http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/26/theme/26T1.html |website=IIAS Newsletter Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709004925/http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/26/theme/26T1.html |archive-date=July 9, 2013 |access-date=September 27, 2005))</ref> combining classical Western symphonic music, the Soviet socialist realism style, and Korean traditional musical forms.<ref>((Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG2AFyFppJQC&pg=PA929 |title=World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia |publisher=Marshall Cavendish Corporation |year=2007 |isbn=9780761476313 |page=929))</ref> The songs are generally sung by female and male performers - either a choir, small groups or a soloist - with accompanying bands or choirs accompanied by a large orchestra (either Western style or a hybrid of western and traditional) or a [[concert band]], and in recent years, a pop band or big band/jazz band with guitars, electric guitars, keyboards, strings, a drum kit and brass section with occasional accordions and traditional instrumentation.

North Korean music follows the principles of [[Juche]] (self-reliance) ideology.<ref>((Cite web|title=Songs for the 'Great Leaders': Ideology and Political Agitation in the Music of North Korea|url=https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/songs-%E2%80%98great-leaders%E2%80%99-ideology-and-political-agitation-music-north-korea|access-date=2020-11-07|website=korea.fas.harvard.edu|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616164956/https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/songs-%25E2%2580%2598great-leaders%25E2%2580%2599-ideology-and-political-agitation-music-north-korea|url-status=dead))</ref> The characteristic march like, upbeat music of North Korea is carefully composed, rarely individually performed, and its lyrics and imagery have a clear optimistic content.

Much music is composed for movies and television dramas and TV movies, and the works of the Korean composer [[Isang Yun]] (1917–1995), who spent much of his life in Germany, are popular in North Korea.

==Pop music==
((see also|:es:DPRK-Pop))
[[File:Scene at the Pyongyang Opera.jpg|thumb|Performance at a Pyongyang opera]]
Under Kim Il Sung's era, only ideologically correct music was allowed. [[Jazz]] in particular was considered out of bounds.<ref>((Cite web |title=Playing "jazz" is a crime in North Korea |url=https://www.salon.com/2013/07/24/playing_jazz_is_a_crime_in_north_korea_partner/ |date=2013-07-24 |website=Salon |language=en |access-date=2020-04-28))</ref> Many artists however found their way around these limitations by writing ideologically correct lyrics while taking liberties with the score. Under Kim Jong Il, previously forbidden genres, even jazz, became permissible and encouraged.<ref name="webc_Theg">((Cite web|title=The good things in North Korea ((!)) NK News|url=https://www.nknews.org/2016/06/the-good-things-in-north-korea/|date=2016-06-06|website=NK News - North Korea News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-01))</ref> In 2010, a [[brutal death metal]] group purporting to be from North Korea, called Red War (붉은전쟁), released a three-track demo online. However, as of 2014 the group are believed to be disbanded.<ref>[https://www.metalsucks.net/2014/12/18/oppression-western-devils-one-underground-north-korean-metal-band/ The Oppression of the Western Devils is Over: One Underground North Korean Metal Band] [[MetalSucks]]. December 18, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2020.</ref> The metal music archive Spirit of Metal currently lists two bands that claim to originate from North Korea, Red War and the [[pornogrind]] band Teagirl.<ref>[https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/bands/North-Korea/1 North Korea: Band List] Spirit of Metal. Retrieved May 25, 2020.</ref>

Many North Korean pop songs are usually performed by a young female singer with an electric ensemble, percussionist, and accompanying singers and dancers, today there's even male singers or a chorus in community or company pop bands. Some North Korean pop songs such as "Hwiparam" ("Whistle")—set to the lyrics of North Korean poet [[Cho Ki-chon]]<ref>((Cite journal |last1=Gabroussenko |first1=Tatiana |date=2005 |title=Cho Ki-ch'ŏn: The Person Behind the Myths |journal=Korean Studies |volume=29 |page=79 |doi=10.1353/ks.2006.0005|doi-access=free ))</ref>—have become popular in South Korea.<ref>((Cite news |last=Chun Su-jin |date=6 October 2002 |title=Attention! Military more receptive to filmmakers |work=Korea Joongang Daily |url=http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=1909436))</ref> Common lyrical themes include military might ("We Shall Hold Bayonets More Firmly", "Look At Us!", "One Against a Hundred"), economic production and thrift ("The Joy of Bumper Harvest Overflows Amidst the Song of Mechanisation", "Attain the Cutting Edge (The [[Numerical control|CNC]] Song)", "I Also Raise Chickens", "Potato Pride"), patriotism ("My Country Is the Best", "We Have Nothing To Envy", "[[Onwards Toward the Final Victory]]") and glorification of the party and leaders ("[[Where Are You, Dear General?]]", "No Motherland Without You", "[[Don't Ask My Name]]", "[[The General Uses Warp]]", "[[Footsteps (Ri Jong-o song)|Footsteps]]"). Songs like "We Are One" and "Reunification Rainbow" sing of the hopes for [[Korean reunification]]. There are also songs with more casual themes, such as "Women Are Flowers" and "Ballad of Gold Mountains."<ref name="roughguide">Provine, Rob, Hwang, Okon and Kershaw, Andy. "Our Life Is Precisely a Song". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), ''World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific'', pp 160-169. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ((ISBN|1-85828-636-0))</ref><ref name=2000a /><ref>((Cite web |title=Oh Potatoes! |url=http://www.allaroundthisworld.com/listen/east-and-southeast-asia-2/oh-oh-oh-oh-potatoes/ |website=allaroundthisworld.com |access-date=4 August 2015 |quote="Potato Pride" is a North Korean propaganda tune in which the elder of the village receives his government ration of potatoes and shares it with his fellow villagers.))</ref>

In 2012, North Korea's first major girl band, the [[Moranbong Band]], made its world debut.<ref>((Cite news |last=Patrick Boehler |date=6 July 2013 |title=Moranbong style: North Korea's first girl band may be a sign of change |work=South China Morning Post |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1275185/moranbong-style-north-koreas-first-girl-band-may-be-sign-change))</ref> It is a group of about sixteen North Korean women (eleven instrumentalists and five singers) which was hand-selected by [[Kim Jong Un]].<ref>((Cite news |last=Beth Stebner |date=29 May 2013 |title=North Korea's five-part girl band, formed by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, blast out hits like 'Let's Study!' and 'Our Dear Leader!' |work=[[New York Daily News]] |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/north-korea-pop-sensation-group-moranbong-music-group-article-1.1357928 |access-date=31 July 2015))</ref>

BBC radio disc jockey [[Andy Kershaw]] noted, on a visit to North Korea with [[Koryo Tours]] in 2003, that the only recordings available were by the pop singers [[Jon Hye-yong]], [[Kim Kwang-suk]], [[Jo Kum-hwa]] and [[Ri Pun-hui]], and the groups [[Wangjaesan Light Music Band]], the [[Mansudae Art Troupe]] and the [[Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble]], who play in a style Kershaw refers to as "light instrumental with popular vocal".<ref name="roughguide" /> There is also the [[State Symphony Orchestra of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea|State Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Sea of Blood Opera Company]], two choruses, an orchestra and an ensemble dedicated to [[Isang Yun]]'s compositions, all in Pyongyang. The [[Pyongyang Film Studios]] also produces many instrumental songs for its films, and several programs on [[Korean Central Television]] have music made and performed by the Central Radio and Television Orchestra.<ref>((Cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Andy Kershaw, North Korea, Kershaw in North Korea, part 1 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005y2pj |website=BBC |language=en-GB |access-date=2019-12-23))</ref>

North Korean [[pop music]] is available for visitors to [[Pyongyang]] at the [[Koryo Hotel]] or [[Number One Department Store]], as well as gift shops in tourist destinations.<ref name="2000a">((Cite book |last1=Broughton |first1=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzX8THIgRjUC&pg=PA167 |title=World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Volume 2 |last2=Ellingham |first2=Mark |last3=McConnachie |first3=James |last4=Duane |first4=Orla |date=2000 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=9781858286365 |edition=New |location=London |page=167 |access-date=31 July 2015))</ref> International and Western music can be enjoyed by locals and tourists at the [[Grand People's Study House]], Pyongyang's central library.<ref>((Cite web |title=Grand People's Study House - North Korea |url=https://www.youngpioneertours.com/grand-peoples-study-house-north-korea/ |date=2018-06-13 |website=Young Pioneer Tours |language=en |access-date=2019-10-06))</ref><ref>((Cite web |title=Grand People's Study House ((!)) North Korea Travel Guide - Koryo Tours |url=https://koryogroup.com/blog/north-korea-guide-grand-peoples-study-house |website=koryogroup.com |language=en |access-date=2019-10-06))</ref>

==Music of Enlightment==
A lot of songs composed during [[Korea under Japanese rule]], which are known in South Korea today as [[Trot (music)|Trot]] are called "[[Korea under Japanese rule|Enlightenment Period]] song" (계몽기 가요).<ref>((cite news|title=[북한 문화 산책] 2. 북에도 '뽕짝'은 있다|publisher=중앙일보|url=https://news.joins.com/article/3995270|date=2000-11-10))</ref><ref>((cite news|title=[김문성의 盤세기]분단의 최대 희생곡 '조선팔경가'… 남북 정치 현실 따라 가사 난도질|url=https://www.donga.com/news/Culture/article/all/20180427/89817786/1|publisher=동아일보|date=2018-04-27))</ref> It is no longer composed as [[Propaganda through media|propaganda music]] has since displaced other musical forms.<ref>Choi Cheok-ho (2001): "So-called People music in North Korea", pp. 64-71. [http://hri.co.kr/upload/publication/UER200103_09.pdf PDF] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407033305/http://hri.co.kr/upload/publication/UER200103_09.pdf |date=2019-04-07 )) (in Korean) (최척호: "북한의 음악: 대중가요", ''통일경제'', 2001 (5·6).</ref><ref>Unification Ministry: [http://nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr/nkp/overview/nkOverview.do?sumryMenuId=CL410 Music in North Korea] (in Korean).</ref> Those songs were only orally-recorded for a long time. However, it was intentionally revived during the [[Kim Jong Il]] administration: in the late 2000s, [[Korean Central Television]] aired a TV program that introduced those "Enlightenment songs".<ref>((cite news|title=[클로즈업 북한] 남북이 함께 부르는 노래…'계몽기 가요'|url=https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/view.do?ncd=3376658|publisher=KBS|date=2016-11-12))</ref>

==Folk music==

Alongside contemporary pop songs, groups like Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble have recorded arrangements of Korean folk songs.<ref>((Cite web |title=Vol. 36 (세 36 집): 조선민요곡집2 Korean Folk Songs 2 |url=https://www.discogs.com/%EB%B3%B4%EC%B2%9C%EB%B3%B4%EC%A0%84%EC%9E%90%EC%95%85%EB%8B%A8-Vol-36-%EC%84%B8-36-%EC%A7%91-%EC%A1%B0%EC%84%A0%EB%AF%BC%EC%9A%94%EA%B3%A1%EC%A7%912-Korean-Folk-Songs-2-/release/4200490 |website=Discogs |access-date=6 October 2019))</ref> The Korean folk song "[[Arirang]]" continues to be widely popular in the DPRK, with [[UNESCO]] inscribing the song to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2014, representing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.<ref>((Cite web |title=UNESCO - Arirang folk song in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea |url=https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists |website=ich.unesco.org |language=en |access-date=2019-10-06))</ref>

Like [[Korean music]] in general, North Korean music includes kinds of both folk and classical, courtly music, including genres like [[sanjo (music)|sanjo]], [[pansori]], and [[nongak]]. Pansori is long vocal and percussive music played by one singer and one drummer. The lyrics tell one of five different stories, but is individualized by each performer, often with updated jokes and audience participation. Nongak is a rural form of percussion music, typically played by twenty to thirty performers. Sanjo is entirely instrumental that shifts rhythms and melodic modes during the song. Instruments include the [[Janggu|changgo]] drum set against a melodic instrument, such as the [[gayageum]] or [[ajaeng]].<ref name="roughguide" />

==Instruments==

In North Korea, traditional instruments have been adapted in order to allow them to compete with Western instruments. Many older musical forms remain and are used in both traditional performances that have been attuned to the ideas and the way of life of the modern North Korean communist state and to accompany modern songs in praise of Kim Il Sung, his son and successor, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un from 2012 onward, plus songs that wish for a reunited Korea, thus creating a mix of traditional and Western music that is truly North Korean, a unique variant of Korean music as a whole mixing the old and the new.

The modern Ongnyugeum zithers and the [[Sohaegeum]] four stringed fiddle are North Korean modernized versions of traditional Korean musical instruments, both used in traditional and modern musical forms.

Military music, in contrast, often makes extensive use of Western brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments, often omitting the Korean ones entirely. Although usually original compositions, the melodies are not easily distinguishable from Western ones in the absence of their lyrics, which heavily feature the customary ideologically oriented content.

== Active musical groups and ensembles ==
((further|List of North Korean musicians))

===Military===
* [[Song and Dance Ensemble of the Korean People's Army]]
* [[Korean People's Army State Merited Chorus and Symphony Orchestra]]
* [[Song and Dance Ensemble of the Korean People's Navy]]
* [[Song and Dance Ensemble of the Korean People's Air Force]]
* [[Song and Dance Ensemble of the Ministry of People's Security of the DPRK]]
* [[Central Military Band of the Korean People's Army]]
* [[Women's Military Marching Band of the Department of People's Security of the DPRK]]

===Civilian===
* [[Unhasu Orchestra|Unhasu National Orchestra]]
* [[State Symphony Orchestra of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]
* [[Isang Yun Orchestra|Isang Yun Symphony Orchestra]]
* [[Symphony Orchestra of the State Affairs Commission]]
* [[Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble]]
* [[Wangjaesan Light Music Band]] and [[Wangjaesan Dance Troupe]]
* [[Moranbong Band]]
* [[Chongbong Band]]<ref name="app._N.Ko">((Cite web |title=N. Korea's all-female band unveiled in Moscow |url=http://app.yonhapnews.co.kr/YNA/Basic/ForeignGallery/view.aspx?lang=EN&contents_id=PYH20150902105900341 |date=2 September 2015 |website=Yonhap |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170930175157/http://app.yonhapnews.co.kr/YNA/Basic/ForeignGallery/view.aspx?lang=EN&contents_id=PYH20150902105900341 |archive-date=30 September 2017 |access-date=9 September 2015))</ref>
*  Musical groups under the [[Mansudae Art Troupe]] (MAT)
** MAT [[Merited Women's Instrumental Ensemble]]<ref name="naen_Naen">((Cite web |title=Samjiyon Band |url=http://naenara.com.kp/en/society/?literary+1+91 |date=16 January 2013 |website=Naenara |publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House |access-date=3 February 2018))</ref>
*** MAT [[Samjiyon Band]]<ref name="naen_Naen" />
**** [[Samjiyon Orchestra]]<ref name="dail_Whyi">((Cite web |title=Why is North Korea sending the Samjiyon Orchestra to the Olympics? |url=http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00400&num=14954 |last=Ha Yoon Ah |date=18 January 2018 |website=Daily NK |access-date=3 February 2018))</ref>
** MAT [[Mansudae Art Troupe Chorus|Chorus]]
** [[Pyongyang Philharmonic Orchestra]]
* [[Central Radio and Television Orchestra|National Philharmonic Orchestra of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]
* [[National Folk Art Troupe]]<ref name="engl_DPRK">((Cite web |title=DPRK national folk art shines in South China |url=http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20130127/101306.shtml |date=2013-01-27 |editor-last=Zhang Jingya |website=english.cntv.cn |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523093006/http://english.cntv.cn/program/cultureexpress/20130127/101306.shtml |archive-date=2015-05-23 |access-date=2015-05-23))</ref>
* [[Pyongyang Film Studios Orchestra|Pyongyang Symphony Orchestra]]
* [[Phibada Opera Troupe]]<ref>[http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201301/news07/20130107-14ee.html Stage Art of DPRK Improved in 2012] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121131625/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2013/201301/news07/20130107-14ee.html |date=2013-01-21 ))</ref>
* [[Symphony Orchestra of the Pyongyang Children's Palace|State Youth Orchestra of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]
* [[Kim Il-Sung University Orchestra and Youth Chorale|Kim Il-sung Youth Philharmonic]]
* [[KCBS-KCTV Central Radio and Television Orchestra]]

== See also ==
((Portal|North Korea|Music))
* [[Korean revolutionary opera]]
* [[List of North Korean musicians]]
* [[List of North Korean operas]]
* [[Traditional music of Korea]]
* [[Music of South Korea]]

== References ==
((reflist))

== Further reading ==
*((cite book|last=Howard|first=Keith|title=Songs for 'Great Leaders': Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance|year=2020|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-007751-8))
*((Cite book |url=http://www.korean-books.com.kp/en/packages/xnps/download.pg.php?504#.pdf |title=Korean Songs |publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House |year=2018 |isbn=978-9946-0-1776-1 |location=Pyongyang))

==External links==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005y2pj BBC Radio 3 Audio (75 minutes): Kershaw in North Korea, part 1.] Accessed November 25, 2010.
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005y2pm BBC Radio 3 Audio (90 minutes): Kershaw in North Korea, part 2.] Accessed November 25, 2010.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721160949/http://www.big.or.jp/~jrldr/w/ig11.html Kim Jong-il Janggunui Norae] - example of North Korean Music, with lyrics (in [[Korean language|Korean]]) and [[mp3]] recordings: (External; licensed for non-commercial use.)
* ((YouTube|4dIJmwzW37k|Concert of the Korean People's Army Military Band))
* ((Curlie|Regional/Asia/North_Korea/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/))

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