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· 제목 : BTS : THE REVIEW (영문판) (A Comprehensive Look at the Music of BTS)
· 분류 : 국내도서 > 예술/대중문화 > 음악 > 음악가
· ISBN : 9788925566061
· 쪽수 : 336쪽
· 출판일 : 2019-03-27

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<BTS : THE REVIEW> 영문판. 미국 시애틀에 10년 넘게 거주하며, 미국팝 시장의 흐름과 케이팝의 동향을 관찰하고 연구해온 음악평론가 김영대가 BTS의 데뷔 이후 현재까지 발매된 열여섯 장의 앨범 전 곡을 리뷰하고, 미국 현지에서 본 BTS 신드롬의 실체를 분석한다.

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음악평론가. 연세대학교 경영학과를 졸업하고, 미국 워싱턴대학교에서 케이팝 연구로 음악인류학Ethnomusicology 박사학위를 받았다. 현재 MAMA 어워즈 심사위원으로 활동하며, 그래미 어워즈 등 주요 시상식의 중계 해설을 맡고 있다. 유튜브 채널 ‘김영대의 School of Music’을 운영하고 있으며, 저서로 『지금 여기의 아이돌ー아티스트』『BTS: The Review』 등이 있다.

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H. J. Chung (옮긴이) 정보 더보기

H. J. Chung studied Korean history and political economy at UC Berkeley, Seoul National University, and University of Washington. She has been a K-pop music junkie for as long as she can remember. When she was a kid, her parents had to pull her away from the TV whenever Lee Ji-yeon?the prototypal solo female idol in the 1980s-performed “Wind, Please Stop Blowing.” After immigrating to the United States, she started frequenting “Soompi Town,” the initial version of today’s Soompi.com, to spazz about H.O.T. with fellow Korean American fans. Currently, she is a translator of texts and multimedia in Korean and English on a wide variety of subjects, including K-pop and K-drama.

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The Korean press often describes BTS as if they rose to stardom overnight, but their potential as a global star was already visible during the early period of their career. The origin of such a trend was a North American K-pop festival called KCON USA, held in the summer of 2014 in Los Angeles, California. There, something completely unexpected happened. The American fans’ response to BTS, a rookie group whose name was barely becoming known, was unusually passionate... the success of BTS is discrete from the traditional style of Hallyu in that it is a musical phenomenon, backed by the massive support of ARMY, their now-famous fandom with an exclusive character.
/ The Onset of BTS Phenomenon at KCON 2014

Self-vindication: this term concisely expresses BTS’ leader and main rapper RM’s first mixtape in a word. The album is faithful to the process of proving who he is. We must pay attention to the context behind this mixtape. The origin of BTS was in their identification as a hip-hop idol. There was an inevitable price to pay for messing with hip-hop, a genre that commands a large brigade of prickly fans who are eager to verify artists’ authenticity. Their format as an idol, regardless of their actual talent, bound them in a certain style of music and performance. This gave the critics an excuse to slam them. Some of the hip-hop community members aimed at the main rappers RM and SUGA, but the game was unfair from the start. This mixtape was born out of such a context. Despite the concerns surrounding “an idol rapper’s solo work,” the rap skills in RM are impeccable, even without the label as an idol. The beats were deliberately chosen to reveal his preference and various grains of his techniques.
/ Review_RM BY RAP MONSTER : Album Review

According to the ARMYs I have encountered in the U.S. over the past few years, BTS’ music is “different” to them. They feel something special that was missing in American pop music, including hip-hop, and previous cases of K-pop music. While there are multiple reasons, the key to such “difference” may be the universality and the wholesome nature of their messages. BTS is the one and only K-pop group that has embraced the narrative of youth and growth, previously avoided in idol music, as their central concept and identity and integrated them into profound messages and trendy music. Following the School Trilogy, their narrative started to develop solidly through the Most Beautiful Moment in Life series. It differed from the conceptual and fictional world view of existing K-pop idols. They were also distinguished from the American mainstream hip-hop, indulged excessively in self-verification and the narrative of macho swagger. The scorching energy of “Dope” and “FIRE,” the dauntless young musicianship demonstrated in the Cypher series and “Mic Drop,” sharp social critique in “Go Go,” and the despair, sorrow, and hope of the wounded youth in “Epilogue: Young Forever” and “Spring Day” have propelled them over the greatest weakness of K-pop ─ the limitations of authenticity in message and attitude. These diverse, sincere, and universal words cannot be created by training and localization strategies.
/ Column_ Narrative and Authenticity over Localization