Melodies of Transformation: A K-Pop Journey

Melodies of Transformation: A K-Pop Journey
Author: Roma Vudutalapally
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2024-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Embark on an unforgettable journey with Lianna as she delves into the mesmerising world of K-pop. In her captivating story, you'll witness the exhilarating highs and heartbreaking lows of a young girl navigating the complexities of life, love, and newfound passions.This is about the character, Lianna, who started to like a new form of music and started to have the weirdest life from then on, and everything started to make no sense. It also talks about the life of a star in the K-pop industry a few times.So, are you ready to embark on an emotional rollercoaster ride with Lianna? Join her as she navigates the complexities of life, love, and the enchanting world of K-pop. Prepare to be captivated, inspired, and deeply moved by her unforgettable journey.

Gangnam Style What?

Gangnam Style What?
Author: Marcus Blackwell
Publisher: Publifye AS
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 8233933813

""Gangnam Style What?"" explores the global phenomenon of the Korean pop song ""Gangnam Style,"" examining its unprecedented success as a turning point in global cultural dynamics. The book delves into the song's origins, its explosive popularity, and its lasting impact on popular culture and international relations. It highlights how this catchy tune became a powerful tool for cultural diplomacy, challenging traditional notions of cultural imperialism and showcasing the increasing multipolarity of global pop culture. The narrative progresses chronologically and thematically, guiding readers through the song's release, its viral spread on social media, and its reception in different countries. By analyzing ""Gangnam Style"" as a case study in viral media and cultural globalization, the book offers insights into the interconnectedness of our modern world. It explores how digital platforms have transformed cultural dissemination and examines the song's role in globalizing Korean popular culture. Drawing on diverse sources and making interdisciplinary connections, ""Gangnam Style What?"" presents a comprehensive exploration of how a single song came to embody the complexities of global cultural exchange in the 21st century. The book's unique perspective and accessible prose make it valuable for readers interested in popular culture, global affairs, and the intersection of media and society, offering a deeper understanding of the forces shaping our interconnected world.

Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea

Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea
Author: Michael Fuhr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-06-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317556917

This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international rise of K-Pop and the Korean Wave. Fuhr examines the conditions and effects of transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the role of the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, relating them to the specific aesthetic dimensions and material conditions of K-Pop stars, songs, and videos. Further, the book reveals how K-Pop is deployed for strategies of national identity construction in connection with Korean cultural politics, with transnational music production circuits, and with the transnational mobility of immigrant pop idols. The volume argues that K-Pop is a highly productive cultural arena in which South Korea’s globalizing and nationalizing forces and imaginations coincide, intermingle, and counteract with each other and in which the tension between both of these poles is played out musically, visually, and discursively. This book examines a vibrant example of contemporary popular music from the non-Anglophone world and provides deeper insight into the structure of popular music and the dynamics of cultural globalization through a combined set of ethnographic, musicological, and cultural analysis. Widening the regional scope of Western-dominated popular music studies and enhancing new areas of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies, this book will also be of interest to those studying East Asian popular culture, music globalization, and popular music.

Travelling Models in African Conflict Management

Travelling Models in African Conflict Management
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 900427409X

Travelling Models offers a theoretical concept for comparative research on conflict management in Africa in processes of globalization: how is change in one place related to developments in other places? Why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up in other places, while others are not? The authors examine how the travel of models enact changes, particularly in African conflict situations, most often in unexpected ways. They look at what happens when a model has been put into practice at a conflict site, and they pay attention to the forms of social (re-)ordering resulting from this process. The authors look, among others, at conflict managing models of power- and revenue sharing, mediation, freedom of expression, disaster management, community involvement and workshopping. Contributors are: Andrea Behrends, Lydie Cabane, Veronika Fuest, Dejene Gemechu, Mutasim Bashir Ali Hadi, Remadji Hoinathy, Mario Krämer, Sung-Joon Park, Tinashe Pfigu, Richard Rottenburg, Sylvanus Spencer and Kees van der Waal. The Introduction of this volume is being offered in Open Access

Journey to the Land of the Morning Calm

Journey to the Land of the Morning Calm
Author: Brandon Boardman
Publisher: Brandon Boardman
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2024-06-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

In "Journey to the Land of the Morning Calm: Exploring Authentic South Korea," embark on an immersive travel adventure through the enchanting corners of South Korea. Bursting with vibrant culture, ancient traditions, and breathtaking landscapes, this non-fiction book takes you on a captivating journey that unveils the true essence of this remarkable country.

Making Music in Japan’s Underground

Making Music in Japan’s Underground
Author: Jennifer Milioto Matsue
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135898472

Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play as resistance through performance of the scene tells us about Japanese society in general. Matsue highlights the complicated positioning of young adult Japanese in contemporary Japan as they negotiate both increasing social demands and increasing problems in society at large. Further drawing on theories of play, identity building, and the construction of gender, all informed by the increasingly influential field of Performance Studies, the book offers a highly interdisciplinary look at the importance of musical scenes for expressing resistance at the turn of the 21st century. Within the underground Tokyo hardcore scene this resistance is expressed through play with individual and collective identity, in intimate and potentially illicit spaces, with an arguably challenging sound and performance style.

Women Rapping Revolution

Women Rapping Revolution
Author: Rebekah Farrugia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520973364

Detroit, MIchigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective, Women Rapping Revolution argues that the hip hop underground is a crucial site where Black women shape subjectivity and claim self-care as a principle of community organizing. Through interviews and sustained critical engagement with artists and activists, this study also articulates the substantial role of cultural production in social, racial, and economic justice efforts.

A K-pop Live

A K-pop Live
Author: Suk-Young Kim
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503606007

“A glittering glimpse into a pure realization of late capitalism, and . . . our collective future . . . .uncovers why K-pop is the global cultural phenomenon.” —Carol Vernallis, author of Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema 1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media. Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of "liveness" in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age. Observing performances online, in concert, and even through the use of holographic performers, Kim offers readers a step-by-step guide through the K-pop industry's variegated efforts to diversify media platforms as a way of reaching a wider global network of music consumers. In an era when digital technology inserts itself into nearly all social relationships, Kim reveals how "what is live" becomes a question of how we exist as increasingly mediated subjects. “Lively insights into the complexities of the artistry and the commerce, the manufactured and the impromptu, the virtual and the somatic, and the local and the global that propel the production [and] consumption of Korean popular music today.” —Hyung-Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia

Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World

Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World
Author: Melani Budianta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2017-12-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351846604

The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow signifi cantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacifi c have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.

Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea

Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea
Author: Michael Fuhr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2015-06-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317556909

This book offers an in-depth study of the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music, or K-Pop, visiting K-Pop and its multiple intersections with political, economic, and cultural formations and transformations. It provides detailed insights into the transformative process in and around the field of Korean pop music since the 1990s, which paved the way for the recent international rise of K-Pop and the Korean Wave. Fuhr examines the conditions and effects of transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the role of the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, relating them to the specific aesthetic dimensions and material conditions of K-Pop stars, songs, and videos. Further, the book reveals how K-Pop is deployed for strategies of national identity construction in connection with Korean cultural politics, with transnational music production circuits, and with the transnational mobility of immigrant pop idols. The volume argues that K-Pop is a highly productive cultural arena in which South Korea’s globalizing and nationalizing forces and imaginations coincide, intermingle, and counteract with each other and in which the tension between both of these poles is played out musically, visually, and discursively. This book examines a vibrant example of contemporary popular music from the non-Anglophone world and provides deeper insight into the structure of popular music and the dynamics of cultural globalization through a combined set of ethnographic, musicological, and cultural analysis. Widening the regional scope of Western-dominated popular music studies and enhancing new areas of ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies, this book will also be of interest to those studying East Asian popular culture, music globalization, and popular music.