Fangirling While Black: K-pop, Affect, and the Reproduction/Rejection of Blackness.
By analyzing the K-pop industry, K-pop fandom, and Korea itself as complexly racialized spaces, I argue that the images of idols, constructed in part through their military-precise African-American-inspired performances and music, work as a form of national branding, framing South Korea as aligned w...
| Publicado en: | Popular Music & Society Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 539 - 560 |
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Dec2024
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