{"id":14592,"date":"2023-09-01T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=14592"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:59:39","slug":"k-pop-a-century-in-the-making-oct-24-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2023\/09\/01\/k-pop-a-century-in-the-making-oct-24-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Pop: A Century in the Making, with Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State Univ) (Oct. 25, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

K-pop’s sustained global popularity from Psy’s “Gangnam Style” to BTS has piqued curiosity of many about its origins and transformations. This talk takes an expansive view of K-pop as an abbreviation of Korea’s century-long musical tradition – from early twentieth-century folk songs, Japanese colonial-era jazz, 1960s’ rock and soul from the U.S. military bases in South Korea, to the emergence of home-grown musicians who would become the masterminds of K-pop entertainment company juggernauts. It is a tradition full of shapeshifting crossovers, ingenious hybridities, and intercultural collaborations, all of which have served as key ingredients to K-pop’s meteoric rise.<\/span><\/p>\n

K-Pop: A Century in the Making<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Pil Ho Kim<\/span><\/h2>\n

(Associate Professor in Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>Wednesday, October 25<\/strong>, from 5-6:30 pm
\n121 Bay State Road, Riverside Room<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Please register by scanning the QR code or Please register here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

K-pop’s sustained global popularity from Psy’s “Gangnam Style” to BTS has piqued curiosity of many about its origins and transformations. This talk takes an expansive view of K-pop as an abbreviation of Korea’s century-long musical tradition – from early twentieth-century folk songs, Japanese colonial-era jazz, 1960s’ rock and soul from the U.S. military bases in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7613,7614,7617],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14649,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14592\/revisions\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}