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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.

This book examines the globalization of contemporary South Korean idol pop music and its intersections with political, economic, and cultural transformations. It examines transnational flows, asymmetrical power relations, and the imaginary "other" in K-Pop production and consumption, visiting stars, songs, and videos. Fuhr reveals how K-Pop is deployed for strategies of national identity construction in connection with Korean cultural politics, transnational music production circuits, and the mobility of immigrant pop idols. Widening the regional scope of popular music studies, this book will be of interest to East Asian popular culture, music globalization, and cultural anthropology.

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CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables = vii
Note on Translation, Romanization, and Korean Names = ix
Acknowledgments = xi
1 Introduction : Rising K-Pop, Pursuing the Hyphen = 1
PART �� Configuring K-Pop : Histories and Production
 2 Inventing Korean Popular Music : Historical Formations and Genres(1885-2000) = 39
 3 Producing the Global Imaginary : A K-Pop Tropology = 59
PART �� Complicating K-Pop : Flows, Asymmetries, and Transformations
 4 Temporal Asymmetries : Music, Time, and the Nation-State = 127
 5 Spatial Asymmetries : Imaginary Places in the Transnational Production of K-Pop = 162
 6 Asymmetries of Mobility : Immigrant Stars and the Conjuncture of Patriotism, Anti-American Sentiment, and Cyberculture = 192
 7 Conclusion : "Oppan, Korean Style!" : An Imaginary Horse Ride around the Globe = 233
Appendix�� : Korean Glossary = 243
Appendix�� : Korean Music Sales Charts 2013 = 247
Index = 249