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This book examines the most important and often overlooked aspect of K-pop: the music itself, demonstrating how contemporary K-pop references and incorporates musical and performative elements of African American popular music culture as well as the ways that fans outside of Korea understand these references.

방탄소년단 RM이 말했죠. "스픽 유어셀프(Speak yourself)" 우리는 아미(ARMY)들의 이야기를 들어보려 합니다. 어떤 이야기든..아미들과 나누고픈 이야기가 있다면, 들려주세요. 아미들이 응답할게요.여기는..쉿! 아미들의 대나무숲, 스픽 아미셀프(Speak ARMYself)입니다.

Dr. Colette Balmain is a senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Kingston University. She specializes in East Asian cinema and cultures and has written numerous articles and reviews focussing in on identity politics, aesthetics, and ideology. Her first book was Introduction to Japanese horror film (EUP: 2008) and she is currently working on an edited collection on BTS as well as a monograph with a working title, Beyond the symbolic: performativity, authenticity, emotionality as feminist masculinity in BTS. She also writes for London Korean Links, View of the Arts, easternKicks.com and Asian Movie Pulse.