K-Pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

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 analyses pop fandom and cultural agency through analyses of 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.

List of contents

Introduction: Why K-pop Fandom Matters 1. Same Look through Different Eyes: Korea's History of Uniform Pop Music Acts 2. Into the New World: Girls' Generation from the Local to the Global 3. The Political Economy of Idols: South Korea's Neoliberal Restructuring and its Impact on the Entertainment Labor Force 4. Despite not being Johnny's: The Cultural Impact of TVXQ in the Japanese Music Industry 5. SBS PopAsia: Non-stop K-Pop in Australia 6. Loyalty Transmission and Cultural Enlisting of K-pop in Latin America 7. Hallyu and the K-pop Boom in Japan: Patterns of Consumption and Reactionary Responses 8. The Dynamics of K-Pop Spectatorship: The Tablo Witch-hunt and Its Double-Edged Sword of Enjoyment 9. 'We keep it local' - Malaysianising "Gangnam Style": A Question of Place and Identity 10. A Sound Wave of Effeminacy: K-pop and the Male Beauty Ideal in China

About the author

JungBong Choi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA
Roald Maliangkay is Senior Lecturer in Korean Studies at the Australian National University, Australia

Product details

• Assisted by: JungBong Choi (Editor), Choi JungBong (Editor), Roald Maliangkay (Editor), Maliangkay Roald (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138575592
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57559-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General