K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea

by John Lie

Book Overview

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 background, Japanese colonial influence, post-Liberation American impact, and recent globalization--but also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283120
• ISBN13: 9780520283121
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 9.9"