K-Pop - The International Rise Of The Korean Music Industry (Media, Culture And Social Change In Asia)

K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea's greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It analyses pop fandom and cultural agency through analyses of fan practices, discourses, and underlying psychologies within their local habitus as well as in expanding topographies of online networks. Overall, the book addresses the question of how far "Asian culture" can be global in a truly meaningful way, and how popular culture from a "marginal" nation has become a global phenomenon. 9781138775961 1138775967 0 SOCIAL SCIENCE NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=ggSNoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Sep 25, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 182 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138775967
• • ISBN-13: 9781138775961