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146. Pop the Music Bubble: K-Pop (28:07)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Yost, Monica
Summary:
This episode began to contextualize K-Pop in a global culture movement. First, we determined that culture shows through the everyday ways of life as seen in a specific group of people. In oder to contextualize K-Pop thrugh a cultural mindset, we took a short overview of the main neighborhoods of Seoul, South Korea following the rebuilding after the Korean War in 1950-1953. We looked at the different ways these neighborhoods created a unique space for different social groups within the city. Through the lens of the land, we began to see how the "big three" music labels, yG, SM, and JYP Entertainment, developed and jump-started the K-Pop business. From there, we determined the specific aspects of K-Pop that make it so unique such as the sound of the language, the dubstep or hip-hop beat, the pop melodies, and the dance choreography. After discussing the land and music, we begin to truly examine the culture surrounding the gloabl aspect of the K-Pop genre. We start looking at the culture in Korea including the formation of K-Pop idols, the kinds of idol fans, and the behavior of concert audiences. We will look a furthr still to see some of the issues that have come up in the politics between artists and music corporations such as the slave contracts and discrimination of Chinese artists and restricting HyunA's music video content. Lastly, we will zoom out to see K-Pop as it moves into the U.S. and quickly gains fans as recorded by Billboard successes of Wonder Girls, PSY, and BlackPink.

149. 2000 Fall Commencement (partial) (1:56:39)

Date:
2000-12-23
Main contributors:
BGSU, WBGU-TV
Summary:
BGSU Commencement Ceremony held in Anderson Arena (Memorial Hall) on December 23, 2000. This is only a partial recording of what was recovered from tape.

158. "'CRONOS' and 'The Golden Goose': Vital Chapters in the History of Post-War Poetry and Publishing" (37:21)

Date:
2025-01-31
Main contributors:
Adams, David, 1946-
Summary:
Slides and audio commentary from a presentation delivered at BGSU's William T. Jerome Library by poet David Adams on October 24, 2024. Adams discusses his decades-long research into the editorial and publishing histories of the pioneering post-war American literary magazines "CRONOS" and "The Golden Goose," which culminated in the publication of Adams's monograph on the subject in 2024. A written transcript of Mr. Adams's audio commentary is also provided (see the Files tab above). Published between 1947 and 1954, "CRONOS" and "The Golden Goose" were founded by The Ohio State University undergraduate students Richard Wirtz Emerson, Gene D. Symonds, Ward Taylor, and Frederick Eckman, the last of whom would later go on to become Professor of English at Bowling Green State University and co-founder of BGSU's Creative Writing Program, and a mentor to author David Adams during his undergraduate tenure at BGSU in the 1960s.