[KS] CFP: The Korean Popular Culture Reader

[Youngmin Choe]

CFP: *The Korean Popular Culture Reader*

Editors: Kyung Hyun Kim (UCI) and Youngmin Choe (USC)



In June 2010, scholars interested in Korean popular culture at US and South
Korean academic institutions gathered at UC Irvine to assess critically the
inherent problems of the dispersed state of Korean popular culture studies,
and to delineate future directions for teaching and research. Until
recently, aside from interest in film and literature, there has been little
attention paid to Korean popular culture in US academia.  The current
attraction focuses largely on the *hallyu* phenomenon. In contrast, South
Korean cultural studies  scholars have focused on a broader period, going
back to the late 1980s, when the employment of cultural politics gained
ground in the movement for social democracy, and to the early 1990s when the
cultural industries began to gain prominence. We seek contributions for a
comprehensive volume on Korean popular culture from the 1910s to the
present. *The Korean Popular Culture Reader* will situate itself at the
intersection of these multiple concerns and points of departure, and
proposes to contribute to the study of contemporary Korean popular culture
by suspending it momentarily from the Asianizing discourses of *hallyu* and
re-engaging it within terms beyond the contemporary as a way of critically
expanding on approaches to the topic in local, regional and global contexts.



The *Korean Popular Culture Reader* proposes to analyze and theorize
contemporary Korean popular culture and the *hallyu* phenomenon, to
recognize its growth from and existence within a larger context of popular
culture beyond that embraced by *hallyu* fans, and to understand the
social-political dynamics of Korean popular culture over the past century.



We especially welcome papers on the following topics, but will consider
other related papers:



-          Colonial era film spectatorship

-          Popular Music in early 20th Korea

-          New Women and modern desires

-          Radio Culture

-          Sports, Race, and Nationalism

-          Tourism and Museum Studies

-          Post-war rock music

-          Iconic screen figures and the star system

-          Manhwa and Animation

-          Television and public performance

-          Food

-          Idol groups, hip-hop, and youth subculture

-          Popular television programs and genre studies

-          American reception of Korean TV dramas

-          Contemporary Art, and Performance



Abstracts should be 500 words and sent to Kyung Hyun Kim at
kyunghk at uci.eduby Nov 10, 2010.
A full paper of 7000-8000 words will be requested by April 01, 2011.  Selected
papers will be invited to a pre-volume Korean Popular Culture Workshop at UC
Irvine in late May 2011. Travel fare and accommodations will be provided.
Please direct inquiries to Kyung Hyun Kim at kyunghk at uci.edu or Youngmin
Choe at youngmij at usc.edu.
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