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K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
K-Pop Popular Music Cultural Amnesia and Economic Innovation in South Korea Author:John Lie 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 backgroun... more »d, 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, K-Pop delves into the broader background of South Korea that gave rise to K-pop in this wonderfully informed history and analysis of a pop culture phenomenon sweeping the globe.« less