K-pop -- the international rise of the Korean music industry
K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as ""South Korea's greatest export"", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop's ascendancy, and explores how they relate to post-colonial modernisation, post-Cold War politics in East Asia, connections with the Korean diaspora, and the state-initiated campaign to accumulate soft power. As it is particularly concerned w
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (195 pages)
9781317681809, 1317681800
890981690
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: why fandom matters to the international rise of K-pop; 1 Same look through different eyes: Korea's history of uniform pop music acts; 2 "Into the New World": Girls' Generation from the local to the global; 3 The political economy of idols: South Korea's neoliberal restructuring and its impact on the entertainment labour force; 4 Despite not being Johnny's: the cultural impact of TVXQ in the Japanese music industry; 5 SBS PopAsia: non-stop K-pop in Australia. 6 Loyalty transmission and cultural enlisting of K-pop in Latin America7 Hallyu and the K-pop boom in Japan: patterns of consumption and reactionary responses; 8 The dynamics of K-Pop spectatorship: the Tablo witch-hunt and its double-edged sword of enjoyment; 9 "We keep it local"
Malaysianising "Gangnam Style": a question of place and identity; 10 A sound wave of effeminacy: K-pop and the male beauty ideal in China; Index