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Live Music vs Audio Tourism
Inaugural professorial lecture given on 11 November 2008 at SOAS. Concepts attached to 'world music', commodification, the challenges of the changing music industry, distinctions between the commercial side of world music and academic courses/degrees, and strategies for sustaining traditional music and the livelihood of musicians specialising in it
The Foundation of Hallyu – K-Pop's Coming of Age
We are still, collectively struggling to come to terms with Hallyu, Korean Wave. This is seen in the multitude of contrasting perspective that have been applied by journalists and academics alike since the turn of the new millennium. This article explores the various different approaches, argues for new theoretical paradigms, and explores, as a case study, how foundations for K-Pop as Korean Wave were built in the years before the term itself, Hallyu, was created
Review of Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi, eds, East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave
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