TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kim, Gooyong,
TI  - From factory girls to K-pop idol girls: cultural politics of developmentalism, patriarchy, and neoliberalism in South Korea's popular music industry 
T2  - For the record: Lexington studies in rock and popular music
SN  - 9781498548823
U1  - 306.4842409519 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Popular music
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Focusing on female idols' proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim contextualizes the success of K-pop within Korea's development trajectories, scrutinizing how a formula of developments from the country' rapid industrial modernization (1960s-1980s) was updated and re-applied in the K-pop industry when the state had to implement a series of neoliberal reformations mandated by the IMF. To that end, applying Michel Foucault's discussion on governmentality, a biopolitical dimension of neoliberalism, Kim argues how the regime of free market capitalism updates and reproduces itself by 1) forming a strategic alliance of interests with the state, and 2) using popular culture to facilitate individuals' subjectification and subjectivation processes to become neoliberal agents. As to an importance of K-pop female idols, Kim indicates a sustained utility/legacy of the nation's century-long patriarchy in a neoliberal development agenda. Young female talents have been mobilized and deployed in the neoliberal culture industry in a similar way to how un-wed, obedient female workers were exploited and disposed on the sweatshop factory floors to sustain the state's export-oriented, labor-intensive manufacturing industry policy during its rapid developmental stage decades ago
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