What's behind the 'K'? Common audio features of Korean popular music before and after the rise of K-POP
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4304497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sébastien Miroudot (0000-0003-3850-2754, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-144 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261143024000187 |
| OpenAlex | W4403079898 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Since its emergence in the 1990s, K-pop has constantly gained popularity and reached a wider audience. K-pop has been described as a blend of different music genres, such as pop, hip-hop, R'n'B and electronic music. However, there was Korean popular music before the rise of K-pop and not all popular music in Korea is K-pop. Using data from Spotify at the track level and exploratory data analysis tools, the paper provides an empirical analysis of the characteristics of Korean popular music since the 1990s and compares K-pop and related genres with Anglo-American pop genres in terms of acousticness, danceability, energy, speechiness and valence. While K-pop is close to the dance pop genre through its danceability, it has on average more energy and cheerfulness than Anglo-American pop. There is also more diversity in Korean popular music than suggested by the K-pop phenomenon. Finally, as K-pop became more successful, it did not become more similar in its audio features to Anglo-American pop
Art · Literature · Popular music · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Music History and Culture
When Market Information Constitutes Fields
K-pop and Cultural Appropriation
Roots and Routes
K-Pop Strategy Seen from the Viewpoint of Cultural Hybridity and the Tradition of the Gwangdae
From conception to consumption
Cultural consumption research
Decolonizing Korean Popular Music
Have you ever seen the Rain ? And who’ll stop the Rain
New Korean Wave
Organizing K-Pop
The Success of K-pop
Cultural amnesia or continuity? Expressions of han in K-pop
Globalization, or the logic of cultural hybridization
Made in Korea
Hybridity and the rise of Korean popular culture in Asia
K-pop in Korea
K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry
Genre conventions in K-pop
Manufacturing Creativity
Critical Interpretation of Hybrid K-Pop
Hybridity in Cultural Globalization
Regulating and Negotiating in T'urot'u, a Korean Popular Song Style
Classification as Culture
Spotify and the democratisation of music
What kind of music
K-pop
Us and Them
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |