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DTSTART;TZID=KST:20260627T133500
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DESCRIPTION:In January 2022\, American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel likened 
 South Korean group BTS’ burgeoning popularity to the spread of an “Asi
 an virus.” His comments stirred fleeting controversy\, and were quickly 
 forgotten once Kimmel apologised for his misplaced humour. Despite BTS’s
  immense global cultural capital therefore\, their musical prowess seems t
 o have outpaced cultural cognizance\, and the growing acclaim of Korean po
 pular music at large is experienced as an anomaly by the crudely defined i
 f still relevant category of ‘the West’. Although South Korean popular
  culture (post-1987) poses a real challenge to western dominion over the g
 lobal cultural sphere\, Korean and western cultural actors do not meet as 
 equals on the international stage. Contemporary geopolitical norms defined
  by past\, unequal power relations (colonialism\, conflict\, trade\, globa
 lisation\, etc.) and their resultant cumulative prejudice\, still govern t
 he terms of these encounters. Meanwhile\, many postcolonial states – fro
 m India to Kazakhstan and Peru – are turning their cultural gaze to Sout
 h Korea as the new frontier\, seeing forms of representation in Korea’s 
 cultural output\, as well as its own postcolonial history\, that were abse
 nt in Western media. In short\, contemporary popular music captures the hi
 storical sounds (literally and figuratively) of a shifting political world
  order. Using examples from South Korean popular music and analysing the m
 any different global cultural influences replete in its sounds and images\
 , this paper will provide a cultural history that led to the current geopo
 litical turn\, and will demonstrate the shift from dominance through polit
 ical salience\, to power through cultural sonority.
DTSTAMP:20260412T123902Z
LOCATION:Room 204 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Borderless Sonic: K-pop and the Sounds of the ‘End of the World
 ’ - Paroma Ghose
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/LPYTSF/
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