Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"
This essay contends with the question of how K-pop, audience performance, and race are intertwined by examining the award-winning musical KPOP. Through its immersive multimedia structure, KPOP reveals how the complex and racialized intertwining of mediated idol and mediated audience complicates the...
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doaj-7b3c397e2256458f986d22f24bac74b02021-07-02T03:52:08ZengOrganization for Transformative WorksTransformative Works and Cultures1941-22581941-22582019-03-0129https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1661Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"Miyoko Conley0University of California, Berkeley, California, United StatesThis essay contends with the question of how K-pop, audience performance, and race are intertwined by examining the award-winning musical KPOP. Through its immersive multimedia structure, KPOP reveals how the complex and racialized intertwining of mediated idol and mediated audience complicates the performance of Asian and Asian American identity, and ultimately leads its audience to a different space than an us-versus-them binary.https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1661/2165IdentityIdolMediaRaceTheater |
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Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP" |
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Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP" |
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This essay contends with the question of how K-pop, audience performance, and race are intertwined by examining the award-winning musical KPOP. Through its immersive multimedia structure, KPOP reveals how the complex and racialized intertwining of mediated idol and mediated audience complicates the performance of Asian and Asian American identity, and ultimately leads its audience to a different space than an us-versus-them binary. |
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