K-pop’s Got Soul

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K-pop and R&B collide in Crystal S. Anderson’s Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop.

Fenwick Library, 2nd Floor Reading Room

K-pop and R&B collide in Crystal S. Anderson’s Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop. Anderson shows how Korean pop groups incorporate elements of African American music culture in their songs, arguing that K-pop is actually a part of a global R&B tradition. Arts writer Pat Padua says that “Soul in Seoul is a labor of love, and K-pop junkies will eat it up.” <a href="https://aaas.gmu.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sponsored by African &amp; African American Studies.</a>This event will take place in the Fenwick Reading Room, located on the 2nd floor of Fenwick Library. T﻿his program is part of Fall for the Book's Mini Fest on February 15. View the full schedule here: <a href="https://fallforthebook.org/mini-fest/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://fallforthebook.org/mini-fest/</a>A﻿bout the Author:Dr. Crystal S. Anderson is an expert in Transnational American Studies, Black Internationalism and Global Asias and affiliate faculty in African and African American Studies at George Mason University. Her most recent book, Soul in Seoul: African American Music and K-pop (2020), explores the impact of African American popular music on contemporary Korean pop, R&B and hip-hop and the role of global fans as the music press. A veteran blogger on Asian popular culture and former associate chief editor for hellokpop, she also manages KPK: Kpop Kollective, the oldest and only site for public scholarship on K-pop.

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