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“patty ahn”

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  • Bangtan Remixed

    A Critical BTS Reader

    Edited by Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Yutian Wong ...
    Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment. The collection’s contributors—who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans—approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives. From tracing BTS’s hip hop genealogy to analyzing how the band’s mid-2020 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • BTS The Review

    A Comprehensive Look at the Music of BTS

    by Youngdae Kim ...
    Translated by H.J. Chung ...
    Unraveling the Secret of BTS PhenomenonThe largest portion of this book is dedicated to the examination of sixteen albums that BTS has released. It was an unquestionable, obvious organization for me, albeit it may be demanding for the readers. To write this book, I replayed BTS’ entire discography ad nauseam, though I am already familiar with the songs from previous repeated listens. I re-analyzed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Jungkook

    The Triumph of BTS and the Making of a Global Pop Superstar

    by Monica Kim ...
    Celebrate Jungkook, the once-in-a-generation talent at the center of BTS, in this illuminating look into the forces that have made him a global icon.Jungkook is one of the world’s biggest stars, period. His first album, Golden, sold more than 2 million copies on the day of its release and stayed on the Billboard 200 for twenty-four consecutive weeks*.* How did a young prodigy from South Korea make ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Unofficial BTS Bible

    All of the Facts You Need on K-Pop's Biggest Sensations!

    by Dianne Pineda-Kim ...
    Join BTS’s ARMY and learn the history of the international K-POP sensation!BTS (aka Bangtan Sonyeondan) has become one of K-POP’s most well-known singing groups. The seven-member Korean boy band formed in 2013 and has slowly grown to worldwide fame through their music. Despite slow beginnings, the K-POP group now has millions of listeners around the world. They led the Korean Wave of music into ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gadget Culture and the Pursuit of Happiness

    by Petra Rehling ...
    The late Steve Jobs has become a figurehead of our modern "gadget culture." His ubiquitous "iThings" have bestowed meaning to our boring lives and profane identities and redefined the world for us. As everything is momentous now, we need to constantly search for more and often assign meaning to the simplest of things. We sanctimoniously accept that our modern existence as digital natives is ... Read more

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  • K-pop - The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry

    Edited by JungBong Choi, Roald Maliangkay ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    K-pop, described by Time Magazine in 2012 as "South Korea’s greatest export", has rapidly achieved a large worldwide audience of devoted fans largely through distribution over the Internet. This book examines the phenomenon, and discusses the reasons for its success. It considers the national and transnational conditions that have played a role in K-pop’s ascendancy, and explores how they relate ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Punk Ethnography

    Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies

    Edited by Michael E. Veal, E. Tammy Kim ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    This ground-breaking case study examines record production as ethnographic work. Since its founding in 2003, Seattle-based record label Sublime Frequencies has produced world music recordings that have been received as radical, sometimes problematic critiques of the practices of sound ethnography. Founded by punk rocker brothers Alan and Richard Bishop, along with filmmaker Hisham Mayet, the label ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • BTS: A Complete Life from Beginning to the End

    by History Hub ...
    History Hub presents a complete biography of BTS from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires us even today.**Currently known as Beyond the Scene, the seven-member kpop supergroup started off as The Bulletproof Boy Scouts (or Bangtan Seonyeondan in Korean) under the relatively unknown company BigHit Entertainment (now known as HYBE). No one would have guessed that this unknown group would ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Made Meme

    Public Conversations and Participatory Media

    by Ryan M. Milner ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    How memetic media—aggregate texts that are collectively created, circulated, and transformed—become a part of public conversations that shape broader cultural debates.Internet memes—digital snippets that can make a joke, make a point, or make a connection—are now a lingua franca of online life. They are collectively created, circulated, and transformed by countless users across vast networks. Most ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Hegemonic Mimicry

    Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

    by Kyung Hyun Kim ...
    In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Video Games and the Global South

    by Phillip Penix-Tadsen ...
    Video Games and the Global South redefines games and game culture from south to north, analyzing the cultural impact of video games, the growth of game development and the vitality of game cultures across Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, Oceania and Asia. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD