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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

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Author

Michael Fuhr, Hildesheimer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Staff

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317556909

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Science