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K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry (Paperback)
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K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry (Paperback)
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
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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 with fandom and cultural agency, it analyses
fan practices, discourses, and underlying psychologies within their
local habitus as well as in expanding topographies of online
networks. Overall, the book addresses the question of how far
"Asian culture" can be global in a truly meaningful way, and how
popular culture from a "marginal" nation has become a global
phenomenon.
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