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K-Contagion: Sound, Speed, and Space in “Gangnam Style”
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2015 (T225)
- pp. 83-96
- Article
- Additional Information
“Gangnam Style” remains an unparalleled pop phenomenon. The music video’s “universality” inspires questions about attributes that have resulted in such a crosscultural contagion. The visual and musical qualities of the “Gangnam Style” video exemplify conditions of liquid modernity and society’s obsession with speed.