How Did K-pop Music Affect Americans?

Bingda Zhang

doi:10.54254/2753-7064/5/20230067

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How Did K-pop Music Affect Americans?

Bingda Zhang *^,1,

¹ Maharishi School

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https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/5/20230067

Abstract

Interestingly, with the export of K-pop music and Korean pop culture, people on the other side of the earth can see Asian faces more often when it comes to Grammy, Oscars, and all the big internationally famous awards. To explain how K-pop music gained its global popularity, it is important to mention its near-term development in America. The perspective of this study is to clarify how K-pop become popular in the United States and how it impacted the US popular music culture. This study is based on secondary research, and all the sources and data are accessible online.

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K-pop, music, American musical, cultures

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Zhang,B. (2023). How Did K-pop Music Affect Americans?. Communications in Humanities Research,5,67-72.

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