Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea

Sounding Out K-Pop

Bibliographic Data

ID7535504
AuthorsMichael Fuhr (corresponding author), Hildesheimer Heimat-und Geschichtsverein Staff
Year2015
Publication date2015-06-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGlobalization and Popular Music in South Korea (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315733081
OpenAlexW4244411718
Open LibraryOL39248921M
ISBN9781315733081
LanguageEN
Citations received19

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 and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international rise of K-Pop and the Korean Wave. Fuhr examines the conditions and effects of transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the role of the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, relating them to the specific aesthetic dimensions and material conditions of K-Pop stars, songs, and videos. Further, the book reveals how K-Pop is deployed for strategies of national identity construction in connection with Korean cultural politics, with transnational music production circuits, and with the transnational mobility of immigrant pop idols. The volume argues that K-Pop is a highly productive cultural arena in which South Korea’s globalizing and nationalizing forces and imaginations coincide, intermingle, and counteract with each other and in which the tension between both of these poles is played out musically, visually, and discursively. This book examines a vibrant example of contemporary popular music from the non-Anglophone world and provides deeper insight into the structure of popular music and the dynamics of cultural globalization through a combined set of ethnographic, musicological, and cultural analysis. Widening the regional scope of Western-dominated popular music studies and enhancing new areas of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies, this book will also be of interest to those studying East Asian popular culture, music globalization, and popular music

Globalization · Political science · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Law · History and criticism · Instruction & Study · K-pop · Music · Music and globalization · Music, korean · Musique et mondialisation · Popular music · Popular music, history and criticism · Theory

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