K-Pop Dreaming - Trot
California Love
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Vivian begins her exploration of K-Pop's history with a genre of Korean music called trot that emerged during the Japanese colonization of Korea. Trot holds up a mirror to Korea’s history and gives rise to an enigmatic quality that, some say, informs K-pop. Vivian’s guide for this episode: her grandmother. Also features 2023 Korean Music Awards nominee and K-pop artist, 250.
(Originally published March 2, 2023)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Larry Mantle. |
| 0:01.4 | 20th anniversary of Air Talk on LA, 89.3. |
| 0:06.8 | We've discussed the biggest topics of the day for decades. |
| 0:10.1 | Thank you for joining me for the biggest conversation in Southern California for 40 years. |
| 0:15.7 | Peter Sagle here, so excited to tell you that Wait, Wait, is finally good enough to make its debut in the OC. |
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| 0:46.5 | Yeah, I'm not you? |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah, I'm still? |
| 0:49.8 | This is me chatting with my almost 90-year-old grandma. |
| 0:53.4 | She's at home in Los Angeles. |
| 0:56.0 | And when I imagine her on the phone, |
| 0:58.0 | I picture her wearing a matching set of floral PJs. |
| 1:01.0 | Historically, our phone conversations have never lasted more than 10 minutes. |
| 1:06.0 | And they've always followed the same sort of script. |
| 1:09.0 | Is everything good with you? Did you catch a cold? |
| 1:11.7 | You can't catch a cold. |
| 1:13.1 | Things like that. |
| 1:14.5 | But then a couple years ago, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, our conversations |
| 1:20.1 | changed. |
| 1:21.7 | For one thing, don't catch a cold became don't get COVID. |
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