K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520283114)

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.

Author: John Lie
ISBN-10: 0520283112
ISBN-13: 9780520283114
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2014
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d