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Soul in Seoul - African American Popular Music and K-pop (Hardcover)
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Soul in Seoul - African American Popular Music and K-pop (Hardcover)
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K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular
music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to
listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African
American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the
most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music
itself. She demonstrates how contemporary K-pop references and
incorporates musical and performative elements of African American
popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of
Korea understand these references. K-pop emerged in the 1990s with
immediate global aspirations, combining musical elements from
Korean and foreign cultures, particularly rhythm and blues genres
of black American popular music. Korean solo artists and groups
borrow from and cite instrumentation and vocals of R&B genres,
especially hip hop. They also enhance the R&B tradition by
utilizing Korean musical strategies. These musical citational
practices are deemed authentic by global fans who function as part
of K-pop's music press and promotional apparatus. K-pop artists
also cite elements of African American performance in Korean music
videos. These disrupt stereotyped representations of Asian and
African American performers. Through this process K-pop has
arguably become a branch of a global R&B tradition. Anderson
argues that Korean pop groups participate in that tradition through
cultural work that enacts a global form of crossover and by
maintaining forms of authenticity that cannot be faked, and
furthermore propel the R&B tradition beyond the black-white
binary.
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