Location: | Online |
Dates and Times: | June 20 - July 20, 2023. Synchronous Zoom sessions on June 20 and July 19, 2023 from 5 to 7pm. |
Credits: | 3 graduate |
Tuition: | $1,195 |
How did South Korea, one of the poorest countries in the early 20th century, become the world’s greatest exporter of its own music, food, tv/movies, video games, and technology? In this class, we’ll explore the musical, cultural, economic and political circumstances that gave rise to K-pop, analyze specific songs/videos, and develop understanding around how audiences consume K Pop. We will discuss the global growth of Korean culture, known as Hallyu, and how this phenomenon has spread throughout the world. This course seeks to celebrate and illuminate the music and culture of K-pop as well critique other issues such as gender inequity, cultural appropriation, and the use of plastic surgery.
Audience: Middle/High School Educators
Course Goals and Objectives:
Geoffrey Kim, M.S.
Geoffrey Kim is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and teacher who specializes in jazz, pop/rock, Cuban and Brazilian music. He performs on guitar, clarinet, tres cubano, and cavaquinho and has composed music for orchestra, voice, chamber ensemble, big band, dance, theatre, and latin jazz ensemble. He currently teaches jazz guitar at the University of Vermont and has taught a class in Social Protest and Popular Music for the Castleton University Center for Schools. Other experience includes teaching at the Latin Jazz Intensive and 13+ years as a teacher at Centerpoint School, a therapeutic-alternative school for youth with social, behavioral and academic challenges. Geoff leads the Cuban/Brazilian ensemble, Guagua, and recorded 3 critically acclaimed albums including “Pan Frito” which was hailed by Seven Days Magazine as “the local jazz album of the year.”
Hong, Euny. The Birth of Korean Cool. 2014. New York: Picador
Jonas, Liz. (2021) Crafted for the Male Gaze: Gender Discrimination in the K-Pop Industry. Journal of International Women’s Studies. 22(7), 2-18.
Kim, E. Tammy. (2022, June 21) How BTS Became One of the Most Popular Bands in History. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/joining-the-bts-army
Lie, John. K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea. 2014. Oakland: University of California Press
Lie, John. (2012). What is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity. Korea Observer. Autumn 2012. 339-363
Marshall, Colin. (2022, August 15). The Door Opened by “Gangnam Style.” The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-door-opened-by-gangnam-style
Seabrook, John. (2012, October 1). Factory Girls. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/factory-girls-2
Yalcinkaya, Günseli (2020, August 12). How K-pop is responding to its longstanding appropriation problem. Dazed. https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/50045/1/how-k-pop-is-responding-to-cultural-appropriation
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