K-Pop
Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Pop & Rock, Popular, Music Styles
| Author: | John Lie | ISBN: | 9780520958944 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press | Publication: | November 24, 2014 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Lie |
| ISBN: | 9780520958944 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication: | November 24, 2014 |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Language: | English |
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.
