From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls - Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism

Summary

Kim combines historical contextualization with political economy of the media and critical textual analysis to investigate the socio-ideological effects of K-Pop in the existing networks of power and domination in gender relations. He examines K-Pop female idols’ individualism and identity formation through the lens of Korea’s cultural politics.

Product details

• Authors: Gooyong Kim
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781498548847
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4884-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: For the Record: Lexington Stud; For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography