K-Pop Dreaming - Bonus #3: Origins of K-Pop
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๐๏ธ 27 April 2023
โฑ๏ธ 46 minutes
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Summary
In a special live event in partnership between LAist Studios and GYOPO, Vivian delves into the origins of K-Pop with Michello Cho, a professor at University of Toronto, and Jheanelle Brown, a California Institute of the Arts faculty member. The conversation goes deep on the influence of hip hop on K-Pop's sound and dance, the impact of American imperialism on the music, and more.
(originally published April 27, 2023)
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| 0:42.3 | LAS Studios Hi, it's Vivian here. |
| 0:48.4 | Recently, the K-pop Dreaming team held a live event in front of an audience to go deeper into some of the topics that the podcast series touched on. |
| 0:56.1 | The panelists who joined me for this wide-ranging conversation were Michelle Cho, |
| 1:00.5 | a professor of East Asian popular cultures and cinema studies at the University of Toronto, |
| 1:05.6 | and Janelle Brown, a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts and Otis College of Art and Design. |
| 1:12.9 | Here's an edited excerpt of the conversation. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, and just a note, we refer to a number of video clips during the conversation. |
| 1:20.4 | Links to those videos have been included in the show notes so you can watch them too. |
| 1:24.8 | Enjoy. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you so much for being here. I'm Vivian You, I'm the writer and host of LAS Studios podcast, K-pop Dreaming. The podcast. Thank you, Michelle. |
| 1:46.2 | So the podcast, it dives into some of the history and the origins behind the music. |
| 1:52.0 | And we're going to talk about some of that history today, you know, specifically with |
| 1:56.2 | regards to the role of U.S. imperialism in K-pop and the role of hip-hop in K-pop. |
| 2:01.8 | We're also going to talk about really fun things like diaspora. |
| 2:07.1 | So in the third episode of our podcast, which is called Trot, we take a look at Japanese colonialism, |
| 2:14.6 | which started it in 1910 in Korea. And we see how Korean music evolved through the Japanese presence there. |
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