Rhetorics of Resistance: Case Studies of BTS through Art, Music, and Fandom
Courses
How do we understand resistance across communities? This course will take a historical approach to study resistance through a rhetorical lens, examining efforts as they have been shaped by various communities speaking to hegemonic powers. We’ll look at a variety of sites and examine practices such as storytelling, music, art, hashtag activism, and silence, to name a few. Our goal will be to map counter rhetorical strategies and narratives. BTS will feature as a case study and lens.
Candace Epps-Robertson, Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina, Department of English and Comparative Literature
2020
Revolution Magazine
Serials
An online magazine that publishes articles written by members of the BTS ARMY.
Multiple
Reviews: BTS BE
Media Coverage
A review of BTS' album 'BE.'
Verónica A. Bastardo
2020
Performed Intermediality and Beyond in the BTS Music Video ‘Idol’: K-Pop Idol Identities in Contemporary Hallyu
Journal Articles
This article examines ways in which intermediality as manifested and performed in the music video ‘Idol’ contributes to this goal by analysing various arts and media demonstrated in a combination of architecture, writings, photographs, drawings, paintings, music and dance.
Yeogeun Yonsue Kim
2020
Positive Psychosocial Outcomes and Fanship in K-Pop Fans: A Social Identity Theory Perspective
K-Pop
This study investigated the self-categorized K-Pop fandom characteristics that predicted higher levels of K-Pop fanship, and subsequent psychosocial outcomes. Social identity theory was applied as a theoretical framework.
Derek Laffan
2020