KOR 3610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: K-Pop, J-Pop, Hybridity
Document Summary
Beyond asia: kpop videos were viewed 2. 3 billion times in 2011. Spread of sns (youtube) in the world. Influence of jpop and other asian pop music. The characters of the traditional, modern, and postmodern. From a traditional to a highly industrial society in less than 5 decades is the situation where one runs fast but remains in the same plan: Alice through the looking glass is when the hyper competition turns into a race that has no clear winners. Korea is two completely opposite images to audiences in core and peripheral countries: is the coexistence of modernity and pre-modernity at the same time. The status of korea as a semi=peripheral country: It is a middle point in the modern world system. It is between the core (i. e. the world"s most developed countries) and the periphery (newly developing and less developed countries) To core country audiences: korean singers = innocent and pure.
