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K-Pop
John Lie
Abstract
K-pop offers a history of South Korean popular music and charts the rise of K-pop as a distinct genre. In so doing, it probes not only the cultural transformation of South Korea but also the political-economic context of the music industry and the export-oriented innovation economy in South Korea.
Keywords: K-pop, popular music, popular culture, culture industry, South Korea, culture, innovation, Korean Wave
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520283114 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2015 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520283114.001.0001 |
