K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea by John Lie
2014 | ISBN: 0520283112, 0520283120 | English | 248 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
2014 | ISBN: 0520283112, 0520283120 | English | 248 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
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, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.