Bangtan Remixed: A Critical Bts Reader with Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

East End Books Boston Seaport presents: Bangtan Remixed: A Critical Bts Reader with Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, 4/18 at 6pm. Boston Bookstore. Join us for a wildly entertaining evening exploring the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS!

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***Free food and drink will be provided (boba with custom book cup sleeves, Korean finger foods in keeping with the theme).

Free sticker gifts accompany the purchase of the book (See photo below)

Bangtan Remixed delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS, exploring their history, aesthetics, fan culture, and capitalist moment. The collection's contributors--who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans--approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives. From tracing BTS's hip hop genealogy to analyzing how the band's mid-2020 album reflects the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrating how Baroque art history influences BTS's music videos, the contributors investigate BTS's aesthetic heritage. They also explore the political and technological dimensions of BTS's popularity with essays on K-Pop and BTS's fan culture as frontiers of digital technology, the complex relationship between BTS and Blackness, the impact of anti-Asian racism on BTS's fandom, and the challenges BTS poses to conservative norms of gender and sexuality. Bangtan Remixed shows how one band can inspire millions of fans and provide a broad range of insights into contemporary social and political life.

Patty Ahn is Associate Teaching Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Michelle Cho is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rani Neutill is Affiliate Faculty of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College and Lecturer of English at Tufts University.

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Yutian Wong is Professor of Theatre and Dance at San Francisco State University.

Review Quotes:
"Painted with both passion and erudition, Bangtan Remixed presents a complex portrait of a band that challenged and changed the rules of popular music today."--Suk-Young Kim, author of "K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance"
Review Quotes:
"Equal parts fan letter, manifesto, and critical research essay, Bangtan Remixed is a work of care and collectivity. Assembled by an impressive squad of queer and feminist scholars and writers who are also unabashed ARMY, the book helps us listen and think differently about BTS by starting from the radical premise that the best music writing can (and should!) be prompted by deep feeling and pleasure. As this reader and its contributors ask us to do, to take BTS seriously is to also reckon with the afterlives of war and empire; the changing landscape of pop music; and the people and places we imagine produce musical aesthetics, business models, and knowledge that matters."--Christine Bacareza Balance, author of "Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scene in Filipino America"
Review Quotes:
"For readers undaunted by this combination of fandom and academia, Bangtan Remixed will be a rewarding experience, and for outsiders to the world of K-pop, it serves as a reminder of how much popular music has changed in terms of how it is produced and consumed in an interconnected world."--John A Riley "Asian Review of Books"
Review Quotes:
" Bangtan Remixed is a diverse collection of perspectives that has clearly been compiled with great care. Its well-written and concise chapters will serve as a valuable source and engaging read for those passionate about BTS, both personally and academically."--Megan Moon "Asian Studies Review"

Contributors. Andrea Acosta, Patty Ahn, Carolina Alves, Inez Amihan Anderson, Allison Anne Gray Atis, Kaina "Kai" Bernal, Mutlu Binark, Jheanelle Brown, Sophia Cai, Michelle Cho, Mariam Elba, Ameena Fareeda, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rosanna Hall, Dal Yong Jin, JIN Youngsun, Despina Kakoudaki, Yuni Kartika, Alptekin Keskin, Rachel Kuo, Marci Kwon, Courtney Lazore, Regina Yung Lee, S. Heijin Lee, Wonseok Lee, Amanda Lovely, Melody Lynch-Kimery, Maria Mison, Noel Sajid I. Murad, Sara Murphy, UyenThi Tran Myhre, Rani Neutill, Johnny Huy Nguyễn, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Karlina Octaviany, Nykeah Parham, Stefania Piccialli, Raymond San Diego, Hannah Ruth L. Sison, Prerna Subramanian, Havannah Tran, Andrew Ty, Gracelynne West, Yutian Wong, Jaclyn Zhou

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