K-Pop Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; K-Pop; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Prelude; 1 How Did We Get Here?; Interlude; 2 Seoul Calling; Postlude; Coda; Notes; Glossary of Korean Terms; Index
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 th.
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Popular music--History and criticism.--Korea (South) Popular music--Economic aspects--Korea (South) Popular music--Social aspects--Korea (South) Music and globalization--Korea (South) Music and globalization. Popular music.