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5 - K-Pop Dance Music Video Choreography

from Part III - Dancing to K-Pop

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2023

By
Chuyun Oh
Edited by
Suk-Young Kim
Suk-Young Kim
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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Summary

Intersecting critical dance studies and performance studies, this chapter examines K-pop dance as an emerging popular dance medium. It situates K-pop music video choreography within the genealogy of popular dance scholarship by closely reading select point choreographies of iconic K-pop idols over the past decade, such as BTS, BIGBANG, Seventeen, PSY, EXO, BLACKPINK, and TWICE. Styles of K-pop music video include schoolgirls and schoolboys, beast idols and bad girls, dance-centric, experimental, and hybrid. While these categories are preliminary and overlap with one another, the basic styles of choreography open room for discussion on racial and gender identity, hybridity, authenticity, and tourism in transnational contemporary Korean dance beyond the mediated screen.

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K-popdancechoreographypost-colonialismhybridityfandomKoreanness/Asianness
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The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop , pp. 97 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Käng, Dredge Byung’chu. “Idols of Development: Transnational Transgender Performance in Thai K-Pop Cover Dance.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 1/4 (2014): 559–571.Google Scholar
Khiun, Liew Kai. “K-Pop Dance Trackers and Cover Dancers.” In Kim, Youna (ed.), The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global, 165–182. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.Google Scholar
Kim, Malborg. Korean Dance. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Kim, Suk-Young. K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Koeltzsch, Grit Kirstin. “Korean Popular Culture in Argentina.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (2019). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.766.Google Scholar
Oh, Chuyun. “From Seoul to Copenhagen: Migrating K-Pop Cover Dance and Performing Diasporic Youth in Social Media.” Dance Research Journal 52/1 (2020): 20–32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767720000030.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oh, Chuyun. “Identity Passing in Intercultural Performance of K-Pop Cover Dance.” Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 49/5 (2020): 472–483. https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2020.1803103.Google Scholar
Oh, Chuyun. K-Pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media. New York: Routledge, 2022.Google Scholar
Oh, Chuyun. “Queering Spectatorship in K-Pop: The Androgynous Male Dancing Body and Western Female Fandom.” The Journal of Fandom Studies 3/1 (2015): 59–78.Google Scholar
Oh, Chuyun, and Oh, David C.. “Unmasking Queerness: Blurring and Solidifying Queer Lines through K-Pop Cross-Dressing.” Journal of Popular Culture 50/1 (2017): 9–29.Google Scholar
Shin, Sang Mi. Ingan-eun oe chum-eul chu-neun-ga. Inryu-ui chum munhwa ko-deu ilggi. Seoul: Ewha Womans University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Van Zile, Judy. Perspectives on Korean Dance. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001 .Google Scholar

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