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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 474 The Journal of Korean Studies NOTE 1. See Shen Zhi-hua, "Sino-North Korean Conflict and Its Resolution during the Korean War," Cold War International Hi story Project Bulletin, nos. 14-15 (Winter 2003- Spring 2004): 9-24. KATHRYN WEATHERSBY KOREA UNIVERSITY * * * K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innova­ tion in South Korea by John Lie. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. 248 pp. $34.95 (paperback) K-pop never had its roots in authentic Korean music. In his latest work, K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea, John Lie spearheads this simple yet daring premise. It is truly a timely and ambitious account of South Korean popular music in a broader historical context. The book's most obvious contribution is introducing a new perspective on K-pop through the exploration of South Korean music history, rather than its global impact embodied in the discourses of the Korean Wave-a transnational circulation-or of course, the latest international dance craze "Gangnam Style" by Psy. Lie's intellectual curiosity embraces the wider historical context of modem Korea in which he ex­ amines the morphology of South Korean popular music from its nascent form to its present iteration. This point of view has http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

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Copyright © 2015 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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0731-1613
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2158-1665
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10.1353/jks.2015.0023
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474 The Journal of Korean Studies NOTE 1. See Shen Zhi-hua, "Sino-North Korean Conflict and Its Resolution during the Korean War," Cold War International Hi story Project Bulletin, nos. 14-15 (Winter 2003- Spring 2004): 9-24. KATHRYN WEATHERSBY KOREA UNIVERSITY * * * K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innova­ tion in South Korea by John Lie. Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. 248 pp. $34.95 (paperback) K-pop never had its roots in authentic Korean music. In his latest work, K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea, John Lie spearheads this simple yet daring premise. It is truly a timely and ambitious account of South Korean popular music in a broader historical context. The book's most obvious contribution is introducing a new perspective on K-pop through the exploration of South Korean music history, rather than its global impact embodied in the discourses of the Korean Wave-a transnational circulation-or of course, the latest international dance craze "Gangnam Style" by Psy. Lie's intellectual curiosity embraces the wider historical context of modem Korea in which he ex­ amines the morphology of South Korean popular music from its nascent form to its present iteration. This point of view has

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Journal of Korean StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Sep 15, 2015

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