Beschreibung:
Offers an account written by thirteen scholars of Korean Studies, ethnomusicology and popular culture from Canada, Great Britain, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the US. This book includes discussion of North Korean popular music and chapters on the 'Korea wave' that swept Taiwan and the Chinese mainland at the start of the millennium.
Korean popular music has in the last decade become a significant model for youth culture throughout Asia. Yet, although the Korean music industry is both vibrant and massive, this is the first book-length work devoted to Korean pop music in English. The book offers a comprehensive account written by thirteen scholars of Korean Studies, ethnomusicology and popular culture from Canada, Great Britain, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the US. It charts Korean pop from the 1930s to the present day, from genres imitative of early twentieth-century European and Japanese styles ('trot' and 'yuhaengga') to contemporary punk clubs, rap bands and music television shows. Consideration is given to South Korean singers who catered for American troops in the aftermath of the Korean War, to acoustic guitar songs and their use in 1970s' student protest movements against military dictatorship, to state propaganda pop, and to the explosion of global styles that marked the 1990s. Lyrics and dance, media packaging and stage costumes, song rooms and singing doctors, highway songs and new folksongs, and the impact of the Internet are all explored.
The book also includes extensive discussion of North Korean popular music and chapters on the 'Korea wave' that swept Taiwan and the Chinese mainland at the start of the new millennium.