Gooyong Kim

From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls

Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry

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Produktbeschreibung

Kim combines historical contextualization with political economy of the media and critical textual analysis to investigate the socio-ideological effects of K-Pop in the existing networks of power and domination in gender relations. He examines K-Pop female idols' individualism and identity formation through the lens of Korea's cultural politics.

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Produktdetails

• For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781498548823
• ISBN-10: 1498548822
• Artikelnr.: 54371056

Autorenporträt

Gooyong Kim is assistant professor of communication arts at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Douglas Kellner Introduction Chapter 1: Popular Culture as A
Strategic Field of Neoliberal Intervention: Developmentalism, Neoliberal
Social Policy, and Governmentality in Post-IMF Korean Popular Music
Industry Chapter 2: K-pop Idol Girl Groups as Cultural Genre of
Neoliberalism: Patriarchy, Developmentalism, and Structure of Feeling/
Experience in K-pop Chapter 3: Between Hybridity and Hegemony in K-Pop's
Global Popularity: A Case of Girls' Generation's American Debut Chapter 4:
Genealogy and Affective Economy of K-pop Female Idols: From Cute and
Innocent to Ambiguous Femininity, to Explicit Sexualization Chapter 5:
Elusive Subjectivity of K-pop Female Idols: Split-personality, Narcissism,
and Neo-Confucian Body Techniques in Suzy of MissA Chapter 6: Resilience,
Positive Psychology, and Subjectivity in K-pop Female Idols: Evolution of
Girls' Generation from "Into the New World" (2007) to "All Night" (2017)
Chapter 7: The 90s, the Most Stunning Days of Our Lives: Cultural Politics
of Retro K-pop Music, Nostalgia, and Positive Psychology in Contemporary
Korea Conclusion