K-pop Dance Education

To Dreamers
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-84234-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

K-pop Dance Education is the first comprehensive guide to teaching, studying, and researching K-pop dance in global contexts.

Through ethnographic fieldwork with fifty K-pop dance professionals, idols, agency CEOs, and choreographers across the US and Korea, this book offers an inside view of K-pop dance pedagogy. Integrating dance and performance studies, media studies, and cultural studies, it establishes a foundational K-pop dance studies framework and introduces research methods theorizing its cultural, aesthetic, and industrial specificities. Addressing issues of authenticity, training, and postcolonialism, it shows how Korea’s rigorous idol-training model becomes a creative fan practice in the US and how it overshadows local teachers’ labor under Western choreographers.

Positioned to meet growing academic and public demand, this book provides adaptable teaching strategies for universities, arts high schools, community studios, and children’s and continuing education programs and serves as an essential resource for Korean pop culture, global performing arts, tourism, and study abroad courses.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oh, Chuyun

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dreamers Who Made K-pop Dance Part 1: K-pop Dance Studies  1. What Is K-pop Dance Studies?  2. K-pop as Commercial Dance: BTS Jungkook’s “Standing Next to You”  Part 2: K-pop Dance Education in the Industry  3. Pre-Trainee Prodigies and Kid Influencers  4. Online, Studio, and Agency Academies  Part 3: K-pop Dance Education in Academia  5. Arts Middle and High Schools, and Universities in Korea 6. A K-pop Idol Master Class in California  7. Theory and Study Abroad from San Diego to Seoul  Conclusion: Towards Global K-pop Dance Pedagogy

Über Autor(innen)

Chuyun Oh is Professor of Dance Theory/Practice, San Diego State University, USA