You're Wrong about K-Pop: A Video Essay
K-Pop
This video "is meant to show the range of artistry, intention, and experiences within K-Pop as well as investigate what K-Pop really is."
Elliot Sang
2020
Transnational Fandom in the Making: K-pop Fans in Vancouver
K-Pop
This study examines how young people become, and feel about being, K-pop fans in a Western context, which is geographically and culturally distant from K-pop's place of origin.
Kyong Yoon
2019
Unpacking K-pop in America: The Subversive Potential of Male K-pop Idols’ Soft Masculinity
K-Pop
Through an in-depth analysis of American fans of K-pop boy bands, this study explores the racial implication of the popularity of male K-pop idols whose performance of masculinity is different from hegemonic masculinity in the United States.
Jeehyun Jenny Lee, Rachel Kar Yee Lee, Ji Hoon Park
2019
The Media Is Wrong about K-Pop
K-Pop
This video examines the VICE documentary titled "K-Pop Machine" and Western media coverage of K-Pop.
Elliot Sang
2020
Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop
K-Pop
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.
Crystal Anderson
2020