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Sun Jung and Yukie Hirata, Conflicting Desires: K-pop Idol Girl Groups Flows in Japan in the Era of Web 2.0
This article uses the experience of the female K-pop group Girls’ Generation (SNSD) in Japan as a case study to examine how K-pop represents a…
Tags: anti-Hallyu, girl groups, Girls' Generation, idol pop, Japanese fandom, K-pop, SNSD
Shin Hyunjoon, Have You Ever Seen The Rain? And Who’ll Stop the Rain?: The Globalizing Project of Korean Pop (K-pop)
Using the Korean artist Rain as a case study, the article examines the Korean music industry and its development into “multi-purpose star management”…
Tags: Asian pop, globalization, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, K-pop, Korean music industry, Korean Wave, regionalization, Shin Hyunjoon
Benjamin Han, K-pop in Latin America: Transcultural Fandom and Digital Mediation
K-pop is a subculture and through digital means, develops into a transcultural fandom that results in its incorporation into Latin American mass…
Tags: Benjamin Han, cultural diplomacy, digital culture, fan activism, fandom, International Journal of Communication, K-pop, Korean Wave, Latin America, transcultural fandom
Gil-Sung Park, Manufactured Creativity: Production, Performance and Dissemination of K-pop
K-pop represents a unique and distinct Korean system of “manufacturing creativity,” which involves utilizing global music talents. This article…
Tags: creativity, globalization, Hallyu, K-pop, localization, manufactured creativity, music industry, social network service (SNS) sites
Jon Fitzgerald, Motown Crossover Hits 1963-1966 and the Creative Process
This article argues for a more significant place of the Motown sound within popular music history by focusing on its innovative creative process. It…
Tags: black popular music, holland-dozier-holland, motown
David Goldblatt, Nonsense in Public Places: Songs of Black Vocal Rhythm and Blues or Doo-Wop
This article argues that vocal rhythm and blues, or doo-wop, is impacted by race, class and location. Characterized by its nonsense syllables in a…
Tags: black vocals, doo-wop, R&B, rhythm and blues
Eun-Young Jung, Playing the Race and Sexuality Cards in the Transnational Pop Game: Korean Music Videos for the US Market
This article examines how the visuals of Korean music videos by BoA, Wonder Girls and Rain play on “racialized notions of sexuality” and “sexualized…
Tags: BoA, gender, Journal of Popular Music Studies, K-pop, race, Rain, sexuality, Wonder Girls
David Brackett, Questions of Genre in Black Popular Music
This article examines the porous nature of genres in music. Instead of being fixed, the boundaries between music genres are not defined and are…
Tags: black popular music, genre
Cho Hae-Joang, Reading the ‘Korean Wave’ as a Sign of Global Shift
This article uses discourse analysis of newspaper and magazine articles during 2001 as well as fieldwork to reveal how the Korean Wave allowed Koreans…
Tags: cultural nationalism, culture industry, discourse analysis, globalization, Hallyu, Korean Wave, neoliberalism, postcolonialism
Seong Cheol Choi, Xanat Vargas Meza and Han Woo Park, South Korean Culture Goes Latin America: Social Network Analysis of Kpop Tweets in Mexico
This study analyzes the tweets of K-pop fans in Mexico focusing on topics in mentions in retweets. As a social networking service, Twitter is a…
Tags: Han Woo Park, International Journal of Contents, K-pop, Korean Wave, Kpop, Mexico, Seong Cheol Choi, Social Network Analysis, Twitter, Xanat Vargas Meza
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