Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Author's Preface
• Chapter 1: Generational Unity: Cause for Celebration?
• Songs the Whole Family Can Enjoy
• Generational Conflicts Promote Creativity!
• The Ebbs and Flows of Generational Conflict
• Chapter 2: Grownups in the 1930s: Shocked by the New Pop Music
• What’s Your Groupchat Profile Pic?
• When Did Koreans Start Making Pop Music?
• The New Trends Appall the Adults
• How Old Was the Generation that Disliked Trot?
• Super Junior on Gayo Stage?
• Chapter 3: Was Trot Really for Teens?
• Grownups Disliked Trot
• Trot and Enka
• It’s Greek to Me: Grownups and the New Music
• The Generation Educated in Japanese
• Twenty-Somethings: Subversive Force in the Popular Arts
• New and Refined Trot to Share with Young People in Tokyo
• Chapter 4: Mambo Dancing in Mambo Pants: In the Aftermath of the Korean War
• The Trot Generation Grows Old
• Trot Eases Generational Conflicts
• The Infiltration of "Vulgar" Music
• Mambo Fever Brings Mambo Pants
• "Après Girls" and "Madame Freedom"
• Middle-Aged People Swept Up in Postwar Fashions
• Chapter 5: American Standard Pop Patches Up Generational Differences: The Early 1960s
• Is "Odong-dong Ballad" Really Less Vulgar Than "Yellow Shirt"?
• The Scales Tip Toward Standard Pop
• Could "Yellow Shirt" Be an International Hit?
• Standard Pop: Modern, but not Decadent
• Chapter 6: The Late 1960s: A Period of Easing Generational Conflict
• The Age of Standard Pop
• Youthful, but Still Familiar
• Standard Pop: Wholesome and Modern
• Chapter 7: Trot Lifts the Spirits—But Wait, Is It Japanese?!
• Singing Japanese Songs on Independence Day?
• The Remnants of Japanese Imperialism, Trot, and the 1965 Korea–Japan Treaty
• Why Did the Middle-Aged Trot Generation Accept Standard Pop?
• Does the Younger Generation Have "Superior" Taste?
• Chapter 8: The Explosion of Generational Conflict: Youth Culture
• A New Kind of Youth: Cheongchun vs. Cheongnyeon
• The "Strong" Generation Becomes Middle-Aged
• An Even "Stronger" Generation Comes of Age
• Being a Student: A New Youth Identity
• Chapter 9: Decadent Acoustic Guitars and "Backwards" Ppongjjak Collide
• 1971: A Pivotal Moment for Folk
• "Wearing a Flower Ring" Corrupts Young Girls?
• Unfounded Fears about Folk
• "Backwards" Ppongjjak: Why Ppongjjak Was Considered "Backwards"
• Anti-Folk: The Fear of Corrupting Students
• Chapter 10: Cho Yong-pil Brings Generations Together
• A Fusion of Trot and Rock?
• Cho Yong-pil, a Superstar for All Ages
• The Fusion of New Rock and Good Old Standard Pop
• Raise That Familiar Melody an Octave and Shout It!
• Chapter 11: The Seoul Olympics, Globalization, and "Underground" Music
• Would "Morning Dew" Have Been as Popular in 1981?
• "Underground" and Minjung Songs Go into Hiding
• Korean Popular Music Catches Up to Sophisticated Western Pop
• Skilled Artistry and a Sense of Stability
• Chapter 12: The 1990s: The Era of Seo Taiji and Generational Conflict
• Everyone’s Talking About "the Generation" Again
• The "Apgujeong Orange Youth" Emerges as the New Generation
• What on Earth Is a Rock Café?
• Hard to Dance Hip-Hop if You’re Over 30
• Chapter 13: Reversal, Resistance, and . . . ?
• History Doesn’t Always Repeat Itself Exactly
• Satanism in a Seo Taiji Song?
• The Youth Refuse to Conform
• The New Generation: Resistance and Subversion
• Still, History Continues . . .
• Chapter 14: Epilogue: When Will an Age of Conflict Come Again?
• The Importance of Knowing History
• Toward Generational Harmony Again
• When Will the Time of Generational Conflict Return?
• Index