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Soul in Seoul : African American popular music and K-pop

Title: Soul in Seoul : African American popular music and K-pop / Crystal S. Anderson.
Author: Anderson, Crystal S.
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]

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Description

xxii, 188 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"K-pop reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: Black Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal Anderson examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself. She demonstrates how contemporary Korean popular music (K-pop) references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of Korea understand these references. K-pop emerged in the 1990s with immediate global aspirations, combining musical elements from Korean and foreign cultures, particularly rhythm and blues genres of black American popular music. Korean solo artists and groups borrow from and cite instrumentation and vocals of R&B genres, especially hip hop. They also enhance the R&B tradition by utilizing Korean musical strategies. These musical citational practices are deemed authentic by global fans, who function as part of K-pop's music press and promotional apparatus. K-pop artists also cite elements of African American performance in Korean music videos. These disrupt stereotyped representations of Asian and African American performers. Through this process K-pop has arguably become a branch of a global R&B tradition. Anderson argues that Korean pop groups participate in that tradition through cultural work that enacts a global form of crossover and by maintaining forms of authenticity that cannot be faked, and furthermore propel the R&B tradition beyond the black-white binary"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index.
Includes discography (pages 161-162).

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- "Listen to the music": African-American popular music and K-pop -- "A song calling for you": Korean pop groups -- "Soul breeze": Korean R&B groups and soloists -- "Rewriting the résumé": mainstream Korean hip-hop artists -- Conclusion -- Discography -- References -- Index.

Call Number

Sc E 22-621

ISBN

9781496830098
1496830091
9781496830104
1496830105

LCCN

2020010046

OCLC

1154130280

Author

Anderson, Crystal S., author.

Title

Soul in Seoul : African American popular music and K-pop / Crystal S. Anderson.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-181) and index.

Includes discography (pages 161-162).

Local Note

AUTH: GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY. EXAMINES MUSICAL AND PERFORMATIVE ELEMENTS, ETC.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-621

JME 20-197

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