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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823767003321

Autore

Lie John

Titolo

K-pop : popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation in South Korea / / John Lie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-28312-0

0-520-95894-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

781.63095195

Soggetti

Popular music - Korea (South) - History and criticism

Popular music - Economic aspects - Korea (South)

Popular music - Social aspects - Korea (South)

Music and globalization - Korea (South)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Prelude -- 1. How Did We Get Here? -- Interlude -- 2. Seoul Calling -- Postlude -- Coda -- Notes -- Glossary of Korean Terms -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.