Overview
- Offers the first scholarly book-length study in English or Korean on the subject Korean hip hop
- Engages with issues related to global hip hop, Korean hip hop, K-pop, Korean identity in transnational contexts, and ethnographic methodologies
- Explicates the term "Hanguk hip hop" and its relation to broader issues of Korean identity and cultural production
Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How has Hanguk (South Korean) hip hop developed over the last two decades as a musical, cultural, and artistic entity? How is hip hop understood within historical, sociocultural, and economic matrices of Korean society? How is hip hop represented in Korean media and popular culture? This book utilizes ethnographic methods, including fieldwork research and life timeline interviews with fifty-three influential hip hop artists, in order to answer these questions. It explores the nuanced meaning of hip hop in South Korea, outlining the local, global, and (trans)national flows of musical and cultural exchanges.
Throughout the chapters, Korean hip hop is examined through the notion of buran—personal and societal anxiety or uncertainty—and how it manifests in the dimensions of space and place, economy, cultural production, and gender. Ultimately, buran serves as a metaphoric state for Hanguk hip hop in that it continuously evolves within the conditions of Korean society.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Myoung-Sun Song is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture at Sogang University, South Korea. She received her PhD in Communication from University of Southern California, USA. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and (national) identity in Korean media and popular culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hanguk Hip Hop
Book Subtitle: Global Rap in South Korea
Authors: Myoung-Sun Song
Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15697-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15696-1Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15697-8Published: 25 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5935
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 198
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Music, Popular Culture , Global/International Culture