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Benjamin Han, K-pop in Latin America: Transcultural Fandom and Digital Mediation

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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…

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Cho Hae-Joang, Reading the ‘Korean Wave’ as a Sign of Global Shift

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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…

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David Brackett, Questions of Genre in Black Popular Music

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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…

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David Goldblatt, Nonsense in Public Places: Songs of Black Vocal Rhythm and Blues or Doo-Wop

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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…

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Eun-Young Jung, Playing the Race and Sexuality Cards in the Transnational Pop Game: Korean Music Videos for the US Market

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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…

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Gil-Sung Park, Manufactured Creativity: Production, Performance and Dissemination of K-pop

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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…

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Ingyu Oh, The Globalization of K-pop: Korea’s Place in the Global Music Industry

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Ingyu Oh, The Globalization of K-pop: Korea’s Place in the Global Music Industry

This article challenges approaches to Korean popular music based on cultural hybridity by arguing that the globalization of K-pop involves modifying…

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John Lie, What is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity

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John Lie, What is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity

This article focuses on the source of K-pop’s commercial success and the meaning of that success for South Korean society and culture. It links Korean…

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Jon Fitzgerald, Motown Crossover Hits 1963-1966 and the Creative Process

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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…

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Seong Cheol Choi, Xanat Vargas Meza and Han Woo Park, South Korean Culture Goes Latin America: Social Network Analysis of Kpop Tweets in Mexico

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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…

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