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K-Pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

K-Pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

Oh, Chuyun

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DanceGeneral ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032079398
ISBN13: 9781032079394
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 1 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media.

Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, choreography, and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York, California, and Seoul, the book traces the evolution of K-pop dance from the 1980s to the 2020s and explains its distinctive feature called 'gestural point choreography' - front-driven, two-dimensional, decorative and charming movements of the upper body and face - as an example of what the author theorizes as 'social media dance.' It also explores K-pop cover dance as a form of intercultural performance, suggesting that, by imitating and idolizing K-pop dance, fans are eventually 'fandoming' themselves and their bodies.

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