Made in Korea

Preface

Introduction: The Road to Popular Music: Regulation, Resistance, and Negotiations

HYUNJOON SHIN & SEUNG-AH LEE

Part I. Histories

1 The Stage Show and the Dance Floor: A History of "Live Music" in Korea

HYUNJOON SHIN

2 Assembling Pop Records in Twentieth Century Korea: A Double is Twice as Good as a Single

KEEWOONG LEE

3 Broadcasting Media and Popular Music: Institution, Technologies, and Power

JUNG-YUP LEE

4 Emerging Social Distribution: The Case of K-pop Circulation in the Global Pop Market

SUN JUNG

Part II. Genres

5 Trot and Ballad: Popular Genres of Korean Pop

YU-JEONG CHANG

6 Korean Rock’s Journey from Group Sound to Indie Rock

PIL HO KIM

7 Modern Folksong and People’s Song (Minjung Kayo)

AEKYUNG PARK

8 Korean Black Music and its Culture: Soul, Funk and Hip-Hop

JAEYOUNG YANG

Part III. Artists

9 Kim Hae-song, An Incomplete Dream of Korean Jazz

JUNHEE LEE

10 Shin Joong Hyun’s Rock Sonority and Korean Pentatonicism in "Miin"

DOHEE KWON

11 Kim Min-ki and the Making of a Legend

OKON HWANG

12 Seo Taiji Syndrome: Rise of Korean Youth and Cultural Transformation through Global Pop Music Styles in the early 1990s

EUN-YOUNG JUNG

Part IV. Issues

13 Korean Pop Music and Korean Identities: A Political-Cultural History of Korean Pop Music and Its Use of Traditional Korean Musical Elements

HYUNSEOK KWON

14 Who’s Afraid of Korean Idols?: Five Keywords for Understanding Korean Idol Pop

DONG-YEUN LEE

15 Controlling or Supporting?: A History of Cultural Policies on Popular Music

SOOJIN KIM

16 The Voice of Popular Korea: Styles, Genres and Contexts

HAEKYUNG UM

Coda

17 Asia and Beyond: Circulation and Reception of Korean Popular Music outside of Korea

SUNHEE KOO & SANG-YEON LOISE SUNG

Afterword

"We tried to catch up, now we should evolve": A Conversation with Shin Hae-chul

HYUNJOON SHIN & CH’OE CHI-SŎN