K-pop : popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation in South Korea by Lie, John, author instant download

K-pop : popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation in South Korea by Lie, John, author instant download

241 pages ; 23 cm, \"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, K-Pop delves into the broader background of South Korea that gave rise to K-pop in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe\"--Provided by publisher, Includes bibliographical references and index, Prelude -- How did we get here? -- Interlude -- Seoul calling -- Postlude -- Coda