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

"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...

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Main Author: Lie, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. Univ. of California Press 2015
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"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, K-Pop delves into the broader background of South Korea that gave rise to K-pop in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe"...Provided by publisher
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:241 pages
ISBN:0520283112
0520283120
9780520283114
9780520283121

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