신 한류 수용의 문화적 맥락과 여성적 정체성에 대한 문화 연구

초록

This research is an attempt to examine international reception of new Korean wave. It is particularly interested in youth culture and popular music with regard to K-pop girl groups. This study conducted an ethnography of K-pop fans in Japan. Japan has been the largest importer of Korean popular culture. In addition to economic importance, teenage fans of K-pop in Japan illustrates cultural significance in a sense that it contributes to develop feminine identity and communicational values in Japanese youth culture. Yet, it is not free from ideological and industrial power. This research scrutinizes the root of industrial and cultural power involved in girl group singers since the 1960s and geological traces of archetype of musical style of them. Audience study of K-pop girl groups in the international context demonstrates the complex process of meaning production in youth culture.

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