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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Main Author: Miyoko Conley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2019-03-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1661/2165
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spelling 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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Media
Race
Theater
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title Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"
title_short Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"
title_full Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"
title_fullStr Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"
title_full_unstemmed Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"
title_sort transnational audiences and asian american performance in the musical "kpop"
publisher Organization for Transformative Works
series Transformative Works and Cultures
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publishDate 2019-03-01
description 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.
topic Identity
Idol
Media
Race
Theater
url https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/1661/2165
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