01496nam a22001935i 4500 26894 BD-DhIUB 20230910115232.0 190220s2019 nyu 000 0 eng 9783030156961 BD-DhIUB 23 781.649 S6984h Hanguk hip hop : Global Rap in South Korea / Myoung-Sun Song. Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 198 p. ; 22 cm. How has Hanguk (South Korean) hip hop developed over the last two decades as a musical, cultural, and artistic entity? How is hip hop understood within historical, sociocultural, and economic matrices of Korean society? How is hip hop represented in Korean media and popular culture? This book utilizes ethnographic methods, including fieldwork research and life timeline interviews with fifty-three influential hip hop artists, in order to answer these questions. It explores the nuanced meaning of hip hop in South Korea, outlining the local, global, and (trans)national flows of musical and cultural exchanges. Throughout the chapters, Korean hip hop is examined through the notion of buran--personal and societal anxiety or uncertainty--and how it manifests in the dimensions of space and place, economy, cultural production, and gender. Ultimately, buran serves as a metaphoric state for Hanguk hip hop in that it continuously evolves within the conditions of Korean society Anthropology ddc BK 0 26894 26853