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University of California Press
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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 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Prelude
  2. pp. 1-6
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  1. 1. How Did We Get Here?
  2. pp. 7-65
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  1. Interlude
  2. pp. 66-95
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  1. 2. Seoul Calling
  2. pp. 96-155
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  1. Postlude
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  1. Coda
  2. pp. 163-164
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 165-224
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  1. Glossary of Korean Terms
  2. pp. 225-228
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  1. Index
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