The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop

Contents

• Introduction Korea's moment in the limelight Suk-Young Kim;
• Part I . Genealogies: 1. Sticking it to the man: early neoliberalism in Korean pop music Roald Maliangkay; 2. Itaewon class, Gangnam style and Yeouido star: the industrial revolution of Korean pop in the 1990s Hyunjoon Shin;
• Part II . Sounding out K-pop: 3. Finding the K in K-pop musically: a stylistic history Jung-Min Mina Lee; 4. Recording the soundscape of K-pop Hyewon Kim;
• Part III . Dancing to K-pop: 5. K-pop dance music video choreography Chuyun Oh; 6. Embodying K-pop hits through cover dance practices CedarBough T Saeiji;
• Part IV . The making of idols: 7. K-pop idols: media commodities, affective laborers and cultural capitalists Stephanie Choi; 8. From K-pop to Z-pop: the pan-Asian production, consumption and circulation of idols So-Rim Lee;
• Part V . The band that surprised the world: 9. BTS, transmedia and hip hop Kyung Hyun Kim; 10. The BTS phenomenon Suk-Young Kim and Youngdae Kim; 11. Transcultural fandom: BTS and ARMY Candace Epps-Robertson;
• Part VI . Circuits of K-pop flow: 12. K-pop and the participatory condition: vicarity, serial affect and 'real-life contents' Michelle Cho; 13. Idol shipping culture: exploring queer sexuality among fans of K-pop Thomas Baudinette; 14. Following the foots