K-pop : the international rise of the Korean music industry / edited by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay.
Series: Media, culture, and social change in Asia series: 40.Publisher: Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations, photographsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 44972ISBN: 9781315773568 (e-book)Subject(s): Popular music -- Korea (South) -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: K-pop : the international rise of the Korean music industry.DDC classification: 781.63095195 LOC classification: ML3502.K6 | .K66 2015Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea's greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop's ascendancy, and explores how they relate to post-colonial modernisation, post-Cold War politics in East Asia, connections with the Korean diaspora, and the state-initiated campaign to accumulate soft power. As it is particularly concerned with fandom and cultural agency, it analyses fan practices, discourses, and underlying psychologies within their local habitus as well as in expanding topographies of online networks. Overall, the book addresses the question of how far "Asian culture" can be global in a truly meaningful way, and how popular culture from a "marginal" nation has become a global phenomenon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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