K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South KoreaK-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. |
Contents
We Get Here? | 7 |
Interlude | 66 |
Seoul Calling | 96 |
Postlude | 156 |
Notes | 165 |
Glossary of Korean Terms | 225 |
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