K-popscape : gender fluidity and racial hybridity in transnational Korean pop dance
| dc.contributor.advisor | Rossen, Rebecca | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Jones, Joni L. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Bonin Rodriguez, Paul | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Smith, Cherise | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hindman, Heather | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Oh, Youjeong | en |
| dc.creator | Oh, Chuyun | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-13T16:49:43Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T22:28:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-13T16:49:43Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T22:28:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2015 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-10-13T16:49:43Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Analyzing bodily representation and audience reception, my dissertation examines (a) how racial hybridity and gender fluidity in Korean pop (K-pop) music performances challenge racialized gender norms in the West, such as feminine/masculine, white/black, heterosexual/homosexual, and colonial mimicry/contemporary minstrelsy, and (b) how colonial history influences East Asian and Western audiences’ different understandings of cultural appropriation and engenders intercultural (mis) communication on a global stage. Drawing on theories from theatre, dance, and performance studies, gender studies, critical race studies, media studies, and Asian studies, I offer close readings of dancers’ bodies, movements, and choreographies as well as audiovisual contents in select K-pop music videos. I also analyze audience reception from media coverage to global fans’ online comments around the world to see both local and global implications of K-pop. In their videos, K-pop performers move between enacting and negating whiteness, blackness, Asianness, and Koreanness with their fluid gender representations. I argue that these complex, intersectional, and often contradictory stagings, which I call K-popscape, are unreadable in the West due to the pervasiveness (and limitations) of stereotypes about Asian Americans. | en |
| dc.description.department | Theatre and Dance | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.15781/T23895 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/31700 | en |
| dc.subject | South Korea | en |
| dc.subject | K-pop | en |
| dc.subject | Popular culture | en |
| dc.subject | Race | en |
| dc.subject | Gender | en |
| dc.subject | Performance | en |
| dc.subject | Audience | en |
| dc.subject | Hybridity | en |
| dc.subject | Globalization | en |
| dc.title | K-popscape : gender fluidity and racial hybridity in transnational Korean pop dance | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |