[KS] Re: Korean pop music

[Michael Choi]

There are two machines:

1. Japan's DDR with 4 squares (left, right, front, back)

2. Korea's Pump with 9 squares (N,S,E,W,NE,NW,SE,SW,CENTER)

Mike


>From: "Lauren Deutsch" <ldeutsch at lalc.k12.ca.us>
>Reply-To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
>To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: Korean pop music
>Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:47:44 -0700
>
>On a practical note ... if there is significantly good hip-hop music coming
>out of Korea, knowledge of this may be of interest to my friends Garth
>Trinidad, dj for "Chocolate City" and Nic Harcourt dj for "Morning Becomes
>Eclecetic" at KCRW radio in Santa Monica. The station plays stuff from
>everywhere, Garth specializing in hip-hop, etc. of the cutting edge.
>
>On a related note ... what is the name of that video arcade machine which
>has all the kids jumping to the music on a tic-tac-toe type of platform?
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> >From: Frank Hoffmann <hoffmann at fas.harvard.edu>
> >To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
> >Subject: Korean pop music [from Stephen Epstein]
> >Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2000, 8:01 AM
> >
>
> >
> > (I am forwarding this for STEPHEN EPSTEIN who cannot access his
> > regular e-mail account right now.)
> >
> >       -------------------------------------
> >
> > I hope people will forgive the self-promotion, but this is very
> > relevant....I have an article on the emergence of a punk rock music
> > scene in Korea that just came out last month in which I discuss some
> > of the issues that have appeared here, such as sartorial style,
> > influences, and hybridization. The full reference is "Anarchy in the
> > UK, Solidarity in the ROK: Punk Rock Comes to Korea," _Acta Koreana_
> > 3 (2000): 1-34.
> >
> > Best, Stephen
> >
> >     > I understand what you mean about the Korean Pop
> >>music's unoriginality.  But from what I noticed, the pop music
> >>industry is more a teenager-driven industry now, and therefore more
> >>hip-hop/dance music is being put out.  Also, many major Korean pop
> >>singers are Korean-Americans and of course they are influenced by
> >>American music culture and simply put Korean words to it.  I think
> >>there should be a study of the teenage music phenomenon.  It's
> >>interesting to see how teenage stars are becoming the norm in modern
> >>Korean pop music culture.
> >
> >

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