The poetics of resistance and the politics of crossing borders

Korean hip-hop and 'cultural reterritorialisation

Bibliographic Data

ID3124503
AuthorsHae-Kyung Um, Haekyung Um (0000-0001-9114-4605, University of Liverpool, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume32
Issue1
Pages51-64
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143012000542
OpenAlexW1977879503
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited26

This paper examines the ways in which hip-hop has taken root in Korean popular culture. The processes that began in the early 1990s include appropriation, adaptation and 'cultural reterritorialisation'. By looking at recent Korean hip-hop outputs and their associated contexts, this paper explores the ways in which Korean hip-hop has gained its local specificities. This was achieved by combining and recontextualising Afro-American and Korean popular musical elements and aesthetics in its performance and identification in the context of the consumption and commodification of Korean hip-hop as a 'national(ised) cultural product

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Commodification · Economy · Hop (telecommunications · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Telecommunications · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Music History and Culture

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