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The poetics of resistance and the politics of crossing borders: Korean hip-hop and ‘cultural reterritorialisation’1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2013

Hae-Kyung Um
Hae-Kyung Um*
Affiliation:
School of Music, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7WW, UK E-mail: h.k.um@liv.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper examines the ways in which hip-hop has taken root in Korean popular culture. The processes that began in the early 1990s include appropriation, adaptation and ‘cultural reterritorialisation’. By looking at recent Korean hip-hop outputs and their associated contexts, this paper explores the ways in which Korean hip-hop has gained its local specificities. This was achieved by combining and recontextualising Afro-American and Korean popular musical elements and aesthetics in its performance and identification in the context of the consumption and commodification of Korean hip-hop as a ‘national(ised) cultural product’.

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Popular Music , Volume 32 , Issue 1: East Asian popular music and its (dis)contents , January 2013 , pp. 51 - 64
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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