The year is 2012. Korean pop star PSY’s song “Gangnam Style” has topped the music charts of more than 30 countries across the seven continents. World leaders like Barack Obama have attempted the horseriding dance of the ubiquitous hit. It has become the most-watched music video of its time, hitting over one billion views on Youtube within a few months. Yet, the song is almost sung entirely in the Korean language. South Korea is a small country, with around 50 million people inhabiting the region. Yet, within the past decade, its popular culture has swept across a majority of Asia and invaded varying parts of the Western hemisphere. This tsunami-like spread of Korean entertainment culture at the turn of the twenty-first century has become known …show more content…
The marketability of their celebrities evolved from the integration of television as the medium to promote South Korean music. The polished packing of the image and performance of an idol have given rise to media that was ready to be consumed by international audiences online. Due to the popularity, South Korea has seen yet another one of their manufacturing exports succeed. In the past, it was an anomaly for songs of different languages to cross into mainstream media due to a cultural barrier. After all, the songs played in America were and are primarily songs from American and British artists. However, the emergence of K-pop on the airwaves is evident of a shift into a new normal. In fact, South Korean pop groups have already begun to find moderate success in the global market. For example, Girls ' Generation sold out Madison Square Garden in 2011. Superstars like Bruno Mars and Skrillex have collaborated on songs and albums with Korean artists. More recently, in 2017, boy group BTS impressed American audiences with dance songs like “DNA” and “MIC Drop,” leading to them appearing on national television shows such as The Ellen Degeneres Show and winning awards from the Billboard Music Awards. As the K-pop production machine continues to manufacture talent and music, it seems as though K-pop will continue to prosper and pervade cultures across the
“Hip hop: Beyond Beats and Rhyme” (2006), by Byron Hurt is a documentary which tells the hidden side of a today’s Hip Hop culture. The documentary was made in 2006 in the United States by a lifelong hip hop fun and lover Byron Hurt, who realized that each hip hop video has something nearly identical; therefore he decided to make a documentary based on music, politics of hip hop and its culture. The purpose of this essay is to show how Byron Hurt used his non-fiction picture to document hip hop culture from different angles and in what way he has presented his main point to the public. After a short outline of a plot and the background of the documentary, it will analyze the structure of the documentary and effects that are used in the documentary, and what effect it might produce on the watchers.
Everybody’s buying Fall Out Boy’s new album, American Beauty/American Pyscho. The Fall Out Boy boy band recently became very popular throughout America in 2014 when their song Centuries, started to hit the number 1 music charts. Originally a fairly popular band throughout the Alternative music industry, they quickly accumulated the attention of music listeners all around the world. The boys also began collaborating with singers like Wiz Khalifa and bands like Paramore or Panic!
According to the reading, consumer’s musical knowledge which includes where and when they were born and raised will all influence the change of Pop Music.
The Korean War By Caleb Hann Key Inquiry Question: To what degree was the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 a proxy of the Cold War and how did it affect international Cold War tensions in South East Asia, especially South Korea? Hypothesis: The Korean War was a proxy of the Cold War demonstrating the intensification of the ideological conflict between the Western and Eastern Blocs between 1950 and 1953.Repeat these ideas in your conclusion and explain how the evidence you have found proves the accuracy of your statement/argument. By the end of World War 2, Japan had control over a large portion of the Eastern Pacific region.
The biggest challenges faced by America in the Korean War were, Korea not being able to defend itself, tactics Korean communist troops used against America and soldiers thinking the war as useless while questioning “What are we fighting for?” The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953, beginning when the North Korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non-communist South Korea. As Kim II-sung's North Korean troops armed with soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea and the United States came to South Korea's aid. If South Korea was not able to carry itself without the Unite States and the Soviet Union getting involved then that would cause another world war, because all of Korea would become communist because of North Korea
English 103, 10-16-16 journal # 7. I am neutral in most of the “Lorde’s Royals Isn’t Anti-Rap, It’s Anti-Imperialism” article. I do not like any rap (it makes my head tired) therefore, I do not know anything about rap. What I did not like of the song is the intense allusion to fantasy, we need to be realistic and try not to immerse ourselves in a fantasy world. I disagree with the part of the article that says “Americans are used to the rest of the world bending over backwards to blend in with their culture”, if foreign stars like Shakira sing in English is because their big success in their native language is not enough for their ambitions.
(U) North Korea (NK), although isolated, have developed their own cultural aspects over the decades. The civilian considerations, such as PMESII/ASCOPE, in NK comes in many shapes and forms. The cultural aspects of NK are dependent on and significantly affected by these considerations. The culture of NK varies from the political to the information considerations in PMESII/ASCOPE. The government control these aspects in NK giving little to no civilian involvement.
Being the second generation of a Hmong American caused complexities. Home consisted of strict traditional Hmong rules. Outside of home was an expression of freedom of the American life. Both have its own diversity. Balancing both felt as though sacrifices should be made.
They received praise from their home country from early on in their career as a band, but the chances of being known internationally were
The Mingo were a highly developed culture and though displaced by Europeans, they have retained many of their customs and beliefs. This Native American tribe continues to show many aspects of its ancestry through daily practices and its religious and social structures even with European influence and displacement to reservations. A part of everyday life for Mingo Indians was the clothes that they wore. The men of the tribe wore breechcloths with leggings, and the women of the tribe usually wore kilts, wore wraparound skirts, short leggings, and overdresses.
In 1999, an important switch point in the music industry came the success of a series of teen-pop stars such as my main focus of this section – Britney Spears, easily the most successful one of the teen pop boom in the late 90s and early 00s, Spears’ debut single … Baby One More Time was credited as key turning point of the revival of teen pop, bubblegum pop music, the single itself was highly successful, debuting on #1 in many countries including the USA, its success caused a lot other teen pop artist to blew up such as Christina Aguilera (“Genie In A Bottle”), Mandy Moore (“Candy”) and Jessica Simpson (“I Wanna Love You Forever’’), but despite the abundance of artists’ appearance, their popularity never reached the fever pit of Britney Spears’.
Intelligence officers were impeded by the refusal of their leaders to accept the reporting of Chinese presence. Colonel Percy Thompson, G-2 (intelligence officer) of First Corps received information from a variety of sources that made him believe that the Chinese have already entered North Korean territory in late October 1950, however his Commanders of the First Cavalry Division did not believe him. Colonel Thompson’s intelligence assessment was accurate as the Chinese attacked on October 25, 1950.
The Homogeneity of Pop Music Pop music, or popular music, in the modern sense has been around in the United States for several decades, having begun around the late sixties, and has encompassed an assortment of genres throughout its progression. As pop music has aged and adapted, an increasingly common complaint among the critics of this genre is all pop songs being homogenous, or they “all sounds the same”. Typically, the fans of this genre respond by stating each song is easily distinguishable from one another, provide a unique musical experience, or they aren’t less unique than any other category of music. Nevertheless, recent evidence supports the notion of pop music sharing numerous underlying traits between many of its songs. The homogeneity
The beauty of music brings us together as one, and we should all take K’naan’s message to
People are immersed in popular culture during most of our waking hours. It is on radio, television, and our computers when we access the Internet, in newspapers, on streets and highways in the form of advertisements and billboards, in movie theaters, at music concerts and sports events, in supermarkets and shopping malls, and at religious festivals and celebrations (Tatum,