Singaporean youth’s gendered consumption of Korean-pop music.

• Main Author: Chen, Priscilla Shi Ying.
• Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Music
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43823
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper I will attempt to present a comparative study of Singaporean youth‟s gendered consumption of Korean-pop music. I analyze the gendered differences in fandom activities and consumers level of involvement, utilising Judith Butler‟s (1990) notion of gender performativity. In addition, I explore how fan clubs constitute an “imagined community” (Anderson 1991) and address issues such as the creation of a transnational consumption space as Singaporean youth consume K-pop largely through the internet and social media. I illustrate the extent of which knowledge of K-pop constitute as forms of social and cultural capital (Bourdieu 1977). Last but not least, I show the objectification and sexualisation of Korean pop stars by both consumers and producers.