<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div>Dear Korean Studies members<div><br></div><div>I am writing to remind you to register for our next talk by <b>Dr. Sarah Keith </b>(Macquarie University, Sydney) on <b>Tuesday 20th September, at 5 pm (AEST).</b> </div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) Presents:</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4">Forthcoming events 2022</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><b>Seminar 6  </b></span></font></p></div><span id="m_-7119278777102496206m_-4730924835728720398gmail-docs-internal-guid-def8c35b-7fff-d393-6916-1b17f702b319"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Speaker: Dr Sarah Keith (Macquarie University, Sydney)</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Date: 20th September Tuesday, 5 pm AEST (30 minutes talk, 30 minutes Q&A)</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Venue: Hybrid (Zoom link & room details to be sent out on the 19th of September)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Abstract:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Title: Co-writes, covers, and collaborations: Globalisation in K-pop songwriting</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Collaboration is increasingly commonplace in songwriting worldwide, ranging from covers, to guest artists, to the use of multinational songwriting teams. K-pop is among the first music industries to explore collaborative and internationalised approaches to songwriting, although the reasons for doing so have evolved considerably over the past decades. This project traces the evolution of K-pop as a global music, identifying key aspects of and stages in international songwriting, using chart data from the 1990s-present and interviews with industry personnel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span id="m_-7119278777102496206gmail-docs-internal-guid-20c98a5c-7fff-7ef3-e056-fa41b6986b81"><b><br></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Bio: </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sarah Keith is Senior Lecturer in Media and Music at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research areas include popular music studies, East Asian popular culture, and the music industries. Recent research has explored K-pop fandom and multicultural understanding in Australia, supported by a grant from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia–Korea Foundation; and digital disruption in the music industries.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="col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