Globalization and popular music in South Korea [electronic resource] : sounding out K-pop / by Michael Fuhr.

"This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Fuhr, Michael, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge studies in popular music ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Configuring K-pop : histories and production. Inventing Korean popular music : historical formations and genres (1885-2000)
  • Producing the global imaginary : A K-pop tropology
  • Complicating K-pop : flows, asymmetries, and transformations. Temporal asymmetries : music, time, and the nation-state
  • Spatial asymmetries : imaginary places in the transnational production of K-pop
  • Asymmetries of mobility : immigrant stars and the conjuncture of patriotism, anti-American sentiment, and cyberculture
  • Conclusion : "Oppan, Korean style!" : an imaginary horse ride around the globe.