Transnational audiences and Asian American performance in the musical "KPOP"

Authors

  • Miyoko Conley University of California, Berkeley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2019.1661

Keywords:

Identity, Idol, Media, Race, Theater

Abstract

This essay contends with the question of how K-pop, audience performance, and race are intertwined by examining the award-winning musical KPOP. Through its immersive multimedia structure, KPOP reveals how the complex and racialized intertwining of mediated idol and mediated audience complicates the performance of Asian and Asian American identity, and ultimately leads its audience to a different space than an us-versus-them binary.

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Published

2019-03-15

Issue

Vol. 29 (2019): Fans of Color, Fandoms of Color

Section

Symposium

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