Sungkonghoe University
Social Science
The series advances transnational intellectual dialogue over diverse issues that are shared in various Asian countries and cities.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen a concurrent rise of pop-rock screen productions in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, particularly feature films, documentaries and TV series informed by the guitar and/or band culture. This... more
Eva Tsai, Tung-Hung Ho and Miaoju Jian, eds. 2020. Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music. New York: Routledge. 288pp. ISBN 978-0-815-36017-9 (pbk).
Like any other genre of Western popular music in the postwar period, rock was introduced to South Korea via the U.S. Armed Forces, a powerful symbol of postwar American hegemony. Until the late 1960s the U.S. military camp shows, clubs,... more