Adam Cathcart Adam Cathcart

Biographic Data

ID8973052
NAMEAdam Cathcart Adam Cathcart
GIVEN NAMESAdam Cathcart Adam
FAMILY NAMECathcart
SIGNATURECATHCART A C A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX0

  • Tradition and Legitimation in North Korea: The Role of the Moranbong Band

    Open AccessPekka Korhonen, Pekka Korhonen Pekka Korhonen et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Korean Studies2017

    Since its debut in 2012, the Moranbong Band has served as a key symbol for the Kim Jong Un-era ruling style, limited cosmopolitanism, and ultimately political conservatism. This article analyses the legitimacy strategies of North Korean official culture in the light of perceived internal needs for change, even as the foundations of the traditional personality cult remain intact and strengthened by the Band’s performances. Analysis of musical perf…

  • How Authoritarian Regimes Maintain Domain Consensus: North Korea's Information Strategies in the Kim Jong-un Era

    Open AccessAdam Cathcart, Adam Cathcart Adam Cathcart et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Korean Studies2014

    The North Korean government of Kim Jong-un is experiencing multiple simultaneous challenges to its legitimacy, but few could be more serious than the inflow and circulation of information in society. This paper uses three case studies to specifically examine how the North Korean state is responding to this danger by actively projecting narratives of transformation: “re-defectors,” sports, and Kim Jong-un’s court orchestra, the Moranbong Band. In …

  • North Korean Hip Hop? Reflections on Musical Diplomacy and the DPRK

    Open AccessAdam Cathcart, Adam Cathcart Adam CathcartARTICLEActa Koreana2009

    This article analyzes the effectiveness of classical music diplomacy toward the DPRK as seen in the New York Philharmonic visit of 2008. After contextualizing the role of the symphony orchestra with reference to North Korea and engaging with some questions of theory and orchestral program, the article goes on to suggest that popular music, specifically rap music, is likely to have a much more lasting impact in the DPRK. As such, the article enter…

  • Internationalist Culture in North Korea, 1945-1950

    Open AccessAdam Cathcart, Adam Cathcart Adam Cathcart et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Korean Studies2008

    In the period from 1945-1950, North Korean elites were indeed oriented toward the Soviet Union, but they also followed developments in Asia with a sophistication that is too rarely acknowledged in histories. This article uses North Korean foreign affairs publications, political cartoons, and captured government documents from the Korean War to argue that during the “liberation” period prior to June 25, 1950, the North Korean people were attuned t…