About the Author

Crystal S. Anderson is affiliate faculty in Korean studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. She is author of Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop and Beyond ""The Chinese Connection"": Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Ethnic Studies Review, and Extrapolation.

Reviews

Crystal S. Anderson offers innovative and original approaches in interpreting K-pop music culture. Instead of emphasizing K-pop within Korean studies, Soul in Seoul positions its focus within a traditional American studies context in addition to fan studies to highlight the influence of African American pop music in K-pop culture. Anderson's unique and rich research, tracing the intertextuality of K-pop influenced by African American music, including R&B, provides new insights on K-pop music, fan studies, and globalization theory.--Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Soul in Seoul is a labor of love, and K-pop junkies will eat it up."--Pat Padua "Spectrum Culture"