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020			_a9781498548823 _qhardcover ; _qalkaline paper
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100	0		_aKim, Gooyong, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFrom factory girls to K-pop idol girls : _bcultural politics of developmentalism, patriarchy, and neoliberalism in South Korea's popular music industry / _cGooyong Kim.
264		1	_aLanham, Maryland : _bLexington Books, _cc2019.
300			_a153 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aFor the record: Lexington studies in rock and popular music
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFocusing 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.
650		0	_aPopular music _zKorea (South) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPopular music _xSocial aspects _zKorea (South)
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