K-Pop Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea [Hardcover]

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Koreaseeks 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 musicthe premodern background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalizationbut 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.

John Lie?teaches social theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

Prelude?
1. How Did We Get Here??
Interlude?
2. Seoul Calling?
Postlude?
Coda?
Notes?
Glossary of Korean Terms?
Index