Made in Korea : studies in popular music / edited by Hyunjoon Shin and Seung-Ah Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sin, Hyŏn-jun, 1962- editor.

Yi, Sŭng-a, editor.

Series:

Routledge global popular music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Korea--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Korea.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.

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. The essays in this volume cover the major figures, styles, and. social contexts of popular music in Korea. The book first presents 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: Histories, Genres, Artists, and Issues. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Histories 11

1 The Stage Show and the Dance Floor: A History of "Live Music" in Korea / Hyunjoon Shin Shin, Hyunjoon 15

2 Assembling Pop Records in Twentieth-Century Korea: A Double is Twice as Good as a Single / Keewoong Lee Lee, Keewoong 23

3 Broadcasting Media and Popular Music: Institution, Technologies, and Power / Jung-Yup Lee Lee, Jung-Yup 35

4 Emerging Social Distribution: The Case of K-pop Circulation in the Global Pop Market / Sun Jung Jung, Sun 47

Part II Genres 59

5 Trot and Ballad: Popular Genres of Korean Pop / Yu-Jeong Chang Chang, Yu-Jeong 63

6 Korean Rock's Journey from Group Sound to Indie Punk / Pil Ho Kim Kim, Pil Ho 71

7 Modern Folksong and People's Song (Minjung Kayo) / Aekyung Park Park, Aekyung 83

8 Korean Black Music and its Culture: Soul, Funk, and Hip-Hop / Jaeyoung Yang Yang, Jaeyoung 95

Part III Artists 107

9 Kim Hae-song, an Incomplete Dream of Korean Jazz / Junhee Lee Lee, Junhee 111

10 Shin Joong Hyun's Rock Sonority and Korean Pentatonicism in "Miin" / Dohee Kwon Kwon, Dohee 123

11 Kim Min-ki and the Making of a Legend / Okon Hwang Hwang, Okon 133

12 Seo Taiji Syndrome: Rise of Korean Youth and Cultural Transformation through Global Pop Music Styles in the Early 1990s / Eun-Young Jung Jung, Eun-Young 143

Part IV Issues 155

13 Korean Pop Music and Korean Identities: A Political-Cultural History of Korean Pop Music and Its Use of Traditional Korean Musical Elements / Hyunseok Kwon Kwon, Hyunseok 157

14 Who's Afraid of Korean Idols?: Five Keywords for Understanding Korean Idol Pop / Dong-Yeun Lee Lee, Dong-Yeun 169

15 Controlling or Supporting?: A History of Cultural Policies on Popular Music / Soojin Kim Kim, Soojin 181

16 The Voice of Popular Korea: Styles, Genres, and Contexts / Haekyung Um Um, Haekyung 191

Coda 201

17 Asia and Beyond: The Circulation and Reception of Korean Popular Music outside of Korea / Sunhee Koo Koo, Sunhee, Sang-Yeon Loise Sung Sung, Sang-Yeon Loise 203.

Other Format:

Online version: Made in Korea

ISBN:

9781138793033

1138793035

OCLC:

914225743

Publisher Number:

99969920056