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

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

Shin Hyunjoon, Have You Ever Seen The Rain? And Who’ll Stop the Rain?: The Globalizing Project of Korean Pop (K-pop)

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

David Brackett, Questions of Genre in Black Popular Music

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

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

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

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

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…

Tags: globalization, K-pop, music industry

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

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

Sun Jung and Yukie Hirata, Conflicting Desires: K-pop Idol Girl Groups Flows in Japan in the Era of Web 2.0

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

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

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