Decolonizing Korean Popular Music: The “Japanese Color” Dispute over Trot.
Trot is a genre of popular music in South Korea (hereafter Korea) from the colonial period (1910–45), and it is still debated whether it should be understood as part of the native culture or as a component of the transplanted culture due to the influence on it of the Japanese genre enka. For 20 year...
| Publicado en: | Popular Music & Society Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 102 - 111 |
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