by Raizel Liebler Five years is a long time in music, especially in pop music. But five years ago, K-pop made its first major forays…
by Raizel Liebler Michael Fuhr’s Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding out K-pop (2016) is an very important addition to the growing field…
by Raizel Liebler K-pop: the international rise of the Korean music industry (2015), edited by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay, is another entry in the…
by Raizel Liebler Yasue Kuwahara’s The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context (2014) is an excellent entry in the ever increasing corpus of…
by Raizel Liebler One of the first book reviews I wrote for TLF all the way back in 2008 was about Mark James Russell’s earlier…
by Keidra Chaney & Raizel Liebler We recently saw the full-length Nine Muses of Star Empire documentary. [A shorter version of this documentary as aired…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of Amber is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. The response of many after…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of GD & T.O.P is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. The introductory posts…
by Raizel Liebler We are launching a new series focusing on gender and sexuality in kpop. We will be writing about Hyuna from 4minute, Amber…
Despite all of the talk about PSY in the United States, there is still so little substantive discussions of K-pop in English. Here, then, is…