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Author Kim, Suk-Young, 1970- author.

Title K-pop live : fans, idols, and multimedia performance / Suk-Young Kim
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) : illustrations
Contents Historicizing K-pop -- K-pop from live television to social media -- Simulating liveness in K-pop music videos -- Hologram stars greet live audiences -- Live K-pop concerts and their digital doubles
Summary "1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, and from a cloistered society to a more dynamic transnational juncture. These seismic shifts had a profound impact on the media industry and the rise of K-pop. In K-pop Live, Suk-Young Kim investigates the meteoric ascent of Korean popular music in relation to the rise of personal technology and social media, situating a feverish cross-media partnership within the Korean historical context and broader questions about what it means to be 'live' and 'alive'. Based on in-depth interviews with K-pop industry personnel, media experts, critics, and fans, as well as archival research, K-pop Live explores how the industry has managed the tough sell of live music in a marketplace in which virtually everything is available online. Teasing out digital media's courtship of 'liveness' in the production and consumption of K-pop, Kim investigates the nuances of the affective mode in which human subjects interact with one another in the digital age. Observing performances online, in concert, and even through the use of holographic performers, Kim offers readers a step-by-step guide through the K-pop industry's variegated efforts to diversify media platforms as a way of reaching a wider global network of music consumers. In an era when digital technology inserts itself into nearly all social relationships, Kim reveals how 'what is live' becomes a question of how we exist as increasingly mediated subjects, fragmented and isolated by technological wonders while also longing for a sense of belonging and being alive through an interactive mode of exchange we often call 'live.'"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-256) and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (DeGruyter, viewed June 17, 2021)
Subject Popular music -- Korea (South) -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Performances -- Korea (South)
Concerts -- Korea (South)
Music and technology -- Korea (South)
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Concerts
Music and technology
Popular music
Korea (South)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503606005
1503606007