K-Pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media

Description

This book is about K-pop dance and the evolution and presence of its dance fandom on social media. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, choreography, and participation-observation with 40 amateur and professional K-pop dancers in New York, California and Seoul, the book traces the evolution of K-pop dance from the 1980s to the 2020s' social media dance and explains its distinctive feature called 'gestural point choreography' - front-driven, two-dimensional, decorative and charming movements of the upper body and face. It also explores K-pop cover dance as a form of intercultural performance, suggesting that, by imitating and idolizing K-pop dance, fans are eventually 'fandoming' themselves and their bodies. Presenting an ethnographic study of K-pop dance and its fandom, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Media Studies, Korean Studies, Performance Studies, and Dance. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dediaction Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgement Introduction: K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media PART I: K-pop Dance 1. Social Media Dance: TikTok Dance Challenges 2. The Evolution of K-pop Dance from the 1980s to the 2020s 3. BTS: The Modern Dancers PART II: K-pop Dance Fandom 4. K-pop Cover Dance as Intercultural Performance 5. A White K-pop Fan-Dancer in Japan 6. A Refuge for Refugee Teens Epilogue: (Im)possibility of Doing Performance Ethnography in K-pop Dance Index