Dear Colleagues:
I am excited to share that my book about K-pop dance is published by Routledge. The book became the #1 Amazon New Release in Communications and Pop Dance in July 2022. It is the first book that theorizes K-pop dance and social media fandom, and I hope it interests your students and colleagues enjoying K-pop. Please consider asking your library to order a copy. You can see the endorsements here.
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. Presenting an ethnographic study of K-pop dance and its fandom, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Media Studies, Korean Studies, Performance Studies, and Dance.
Thank you, Chuyun Oh (Fulbright Scholar & Associate Professor of Dance at San Diego State University)
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Chuyun Oh
Associate Professor
San Diego State University
CA
United States
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