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Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication

Journal

2023

Masculinity

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How Boy Bands Across The World Are Changing Masculinity, Maria Babko Oct 2023

How Boy Bands Across The World Are Changing Masculinity, Maria Babko

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This paper analyzes the BTS music video, Dynamite, from a sociological perspective and seeks to identify deeper meanings of the portrayal of masculinity from the visual encodings of the video. The first part discusses the sociology and sub-component definitions and how they will be applied to the music video analysis. The second section identifies the characters, the BTS boys, and the narrative, them dancing and having fun, as seen in the music video. The third part uses sociological analysis to make sense of the visuals discussed in the previous part, providing a wider view of K-pop boy bands as a …


Masculinity Reconstruction By K-Pop Idol Bts: Bts Army’S Reception Analysis Towards Bts’S Musics And Contents, Jasmine Qurrota Ayuni Perwiradmoko Aug 2023

Masculinity Reconstruction By K-Pop Idol Bts: Bts Army’S Reception Analysis Towards Bts’S Musics And Contents, Jasmine Qurrota Ayuni Perwiradmoko

Jurnal Komunikasi Indonesia

This study have an aim to see the reception analysis from BTS ARMY towards the reconstruction of masculinity that BTS do. The previous studies showed that the K-Pop Male Idol have reconstructed the meaning of masculinity, and also see how the masculinity reconstruction that the K-Pop Male Idol did has been consumed by the fangirls. However, those studies have not explained about how the fangirls point of view about the reconstruction of masculinity, especially if it is contexted in Indonesia’s masculinity construction. This study argues that the various product of Korean popular culture or Hallyu, which in the context of …