Korean pop music : riding the wave
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Korean pop music : riding the wave
Global Oriental, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p.221-239) and index
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Description
Korean popular music has in the last decade become a significant model for youth culture throughout Asia. Yet, although the Korean music industry is both vibrant and massive, this is the first book-length work devoted to the subject to appear in English. The book offers a comprehensive account, written by thirteen scholars of Korean Studies, enthnomusicology and popular culture, charting Korean pop from the 1930s to the present day, from genres imitative of early twentieth-century European and Japanese styles (`trot' and `yuhaengga') to contemporary punk clubs, rap bands and music television shows. Consideration is given to South Korean singers who catered for US troops in the aftermath of the Korean War, to acoustic guitar songs and their use in the 1970s' student protest movements against military dictatorship, to state propaganda pop, and to the explosion of global styles that marked the 1990s. Lyrics and dance, media packaging and stage costumes, song rooms and singing doctors, highway songs and new folksongs, as well as the impact of the Internet are all explored. The book also includes extensive discussion of North Korean popular music and chapters on the `Korean wave' that swept Taiwan and the Chinese mainland at the start of the new millennium.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- List of Contributors
- 1 The Beginnings of Korean Pop: Popular Music During the Japanese Occupation Era (1910-45)
- 2 New Folksongs: Shin Minyo of the 1930s
- 3 Supporting Our Boys: American Military Entertainment and Korean Pop Music in the 1950s and Early-1960s
- 4 The Ascent and Politicization of Pop Music in Korea: From the 1960s to the 1980s
- 5 Pop for Progress: Censorship and South Korea's Propaganda Songs
- 6 On the Mimetic Faculty: A Critical Study of the 1984 Ppongtchak Debate and Post-Colonial Mimesis
- 7 Highway Songs in South Korea
- 8. Coming of Age: Korean Pop in the 1990s
- 9 Image is Everything: The Marketing of Feminity in South Korean Popular Music
- 10 Articulating Korean Youth Culture through Global Popular Music Styles: Seo Taiji's Use of Rap and Metal
- 11 Is Korean Noraebang Japan Kara-OK? Reflections on Singing Doctors, Singing Banquets and Singing Rooms in Korea
- 12 Healthy, National and Up-to-date: Pop Music in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, China
- 13 The People Defeated Will Never Be United: Pop Music and Ideology in North Korea
- 14 The Hanliu Phenomenon in Taiwan: TV Dramas and Teenage Pop
- 15 Internet, Fandom and K-Wave in China
- 16 `We Are The Punx in Korea'
- 17 Bounded Variation? Music Television in South Korea
- References
- Index
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