K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie provides not only a history of South Korean popular music—the premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization—but also a description of K-pop as a system of economic innovation and cultural production. In doing so, he delves into the broader background of South Korea in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.
Table of Content
Prelude
1. How Did We Get Here?
Interlude
2. Seoul Calling
Postlude
Coda
Notes
Glossary of Korean Terms
Index
About the author
John Lie teaches social theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
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