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Author Shin, Hyunjoon

Title Made in Korea : Studies in Popular Music
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Routledge Global Popular Music Series
Routledge global popular music series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: The Road to Popular Music: Regulation, Resistance, and Negotiations; Part I: Histories; 1 The Stage Show and the Dance Floor: A History of "Live Music" in Korea; 2 Assembling Pop Records in Twentieth-Century Korea: A Double is Twice as Good as a Single; 3 Broadcasting Media and Popular Music: Institution, Technologies, and Power; 4 Emerging Social Distribution: The Case of K-pop Circulation in the Global Pop Market; Part II: Genres; 5 Trot and Ballad: Popular Genres of Korean Pop
6 Korean Rock's Journey from Group Sound to Indie Punk7 Modern Folksong and People's Song (Minjung Kayo); 8 Korean Black Music and its Culture: Soul, Funk, and Hip-Hop; Part III: Artists; 9 Kim Hae-song, an Incomplete Dream of Korean Jazz; 10 Shin Joong Hyun's Rock Sonority and Korean Pentatonicism in "Miin"; 11 Kim Min-ki and the Making of a Legend; 12 Seo Taiji Syndrome: Rise of Korean Youth and Cultural Transformation through Global Pop Music Styles in the Early 1990s; Part IV: Issues
13 Korean Pop Music and Korean Identities: A Political-Cultural History of Korean Pop Music and Its Use of Traditional Korean Musical Elements14 Who's Afraid of Korean Idols?: Five Keywords for Understanding Korean Idol Pop; 15 Controlling or Supporting?: A History of Cultural Policies on Popular Music; 16 The Voice of Popular Korea: Styles, Genres, and Contexts; Coda; 17 Asia and Beyond: The Circulation and Reception of Korean Popular Music outside of Korea; Afterword-"We Tried to Catch up, Now We Should Evolve": A Conversation with Shin Hae-chul; Bibliography; About the Authors; Index
Summary Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Korean popular music. Each essay covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Korea, first presenting a general description of the history and background of popular music in Korea, followed by essays, written by leading scholars of Korean music, that are organized into thematic sections: History, Institution, Ideology; Genres and Styles; Artists; and Issues -- publisher's description
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Subject Popular music -- Korea -- History and criticism
Popular music
Korea
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lee, Seung-Ah
ISBN 9781317645733
1317645731