Korean Pop Music

Riding the Wave
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-905246-22-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Gewicht: 600 g

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Howard is Reader in Music at SOAS, University of London, and Director of AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance. He is the author and editor of thirteen books and more than a hundred articles on Korean culture, Korean music and ethnomusicology, including the forthcoming Preserving Korean Music and Creating Korean Music. He is a frequent broadcaster on Korean affairs, and has given several hundred guest lectures and performances in Europe, America, Asia and Australasia.