Made in Korea : studies in popular music

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    • Shin, Hyunjoon
    • Lee, Seung-Ah
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Made in Korea : studies in popular music

edited by Hyunjoon Shin and Seung-Ah Lee

(Routledge global popular music series / edited by Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino)

Routledge, 2018

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Korean popular music. Each essay covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Korea, first presenting a general description of the history and background of popular music in Korea, followed by essays, written by leading scholars of Korean music, that are organized into thematic sections: History, Institution, Ideology; Genres and Styles; Artists; and Issues.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Road to Popular Music: Regulation, Resistance, and Negotiations HYUNJOON SHIN & SEUNG-AH LEE Part I. Histories 1 The Stage Show and the Dance Floor: A History of "Live Music" in Korea HYUNJOON SHIN 2 Assembling Pop Records in Twentieth Century Korea: A Double is Twice as Good as a Single KEEWOONG LEE 3 Broadcasting Media and Popular Music: Institution, Technologies, and Power JUNG-YUP LEE 4 Emerging Social Distribution: The Case of K-pop Circulation in the Global Pop Market SUN JUNG Part II. Genres 5 Trot and Ballad: Popular Genres of Korean Pop YU-JEONG CHANG 6 Korean Rock's Journey from Group Sound to Indie Rock PIL HO KIM 7 Modern Folksong and People's Song (Minjung Kayo) AEKYUNG PARK 8 Korean Black Music and its Culture: Soul, Funk and Hip-Hop JAEYOUNG YANG Part III. Artists 9 Kim Hae-song, An Incomplete Dream of Korean Jazz JUNHEE LEE 10 Shin Joong Hyun's Rock Sonority and Korean Pentatonicism in "Miin" DOHEE KWON 11 Kim Min-ki and the Making of a Legend OKON HWANG 12 Seo Taiji Syndrome: Rise of Korean Youth and Cultural Transformation through Global Pop Music Styles in the early 1990s EUN-YOUNG JUNG Part IV. Issues 13 Korean Pop Music and Korean Identities: A Political-Cultural History of Korean Pop Music and Its Use of Traditional Korean Musical Elements HYUNSEOK KWON 14 Who's Afraid of Korean Idols?: Five Keywords for Understanding Korean Idol Pop DONG-YEUN LEE 15 Controlling or Supporting?: A History of Cultural Policies on Popular Music SOOJIN KIM 16 The Voice of Popular Korea: Styles, Genres and Contexts HAEKYUNG UM Coda 17 Asia and Beyond: Circulation and Reception of Korean Popular Music outside of Korea SUNHEE KOO & SANG-YEON LOISE SUNG Afterword "We tried to catch up, now we should evolve": A Conversation with Shin Hae-chul HYUNJOON SHIN & CH'OE CHI-SON

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