Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader

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Contents
Note on Terminology and Romanization
Acknowledgments
Intro · On Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader
I: “You Can Call Me Artist, You Can Call Me IDOL!”
	01· Tradition, Transition, and Trends: Contextualizing BTS’s Gugak-Inspired Performance of “IDOL”
	02· Hustlin’ until Dope: How BTS’s Rap Line Cultivated Their Hip-Hop Identities
	03· “Life Goes On”: Social and Musical Space in BTS’s Midpandemic Album BE
	04· Blood, Sweat, and Tears: BTS, Bruegel, and the Baroque
	05· Martha and the Swans: BTS, “Black Swan,” and Cold War Dance History
II: “Mikrokosmos”
	06· The Platformization of K-Pop: From Weverse to NFTs
	07· Under the Same Sky: Synchronicity in BTS Media, Online and Offline
	08· Bridging the Senses: Medium and Materiality from Music Videos to Graphic Lyrics
	09· Sweet Chili and Cajun: Tasting the Power of Language with the BTS McDonald’s Meal
	10· Fragmentary Redemptions: ARMY, RPF, and the AU at the Heart of the Bangtan Universe
	11· “Black Guy Reacts to BTS for the First Time”: Provocations from a Black ARMY
	12· “Your Story Becomes Our Universe”: Fan Edits, Shitposts, and the BTS Database
	13· Jung Kook’s Button, or the GIF That Keeps on Giving
III: “Not Today”
	14· Empire Goes On: Transpacific Circuits of Care Work
	15· Like a Criminal Undercover: Love, Hate, and the Performance of Inclusion
	16· Recoding the Bot: ARMY and Digital Transgression
	17· Break the Structure: BTS ARMY Digital Activism and State Surveillance in Indonesia’s Omnibus Law Protest
	18· From Purple to Pink: The Filipino ARMY for Leni and the Fight for Good Governance
	19· “Yoongi, Can You Hear Me?”: Demanding Justice for #Melisa and ARMY Activism in Turkey
	20 · “Spring Day”: Nostalgia, Pop Mediation, and Public Mourning
	Interlude· “Magic Shop”: So Show Me, I’ll Show You (My Fanart)
Plate 1. My Universe —Rosanna Hall
Plate 2. Crimson Blooming —Carolina Alves
Plate 3.  —JIN Youngsun
Plate 4. “Spring Day” —Yuni Kartika
Plate 5. Diary of Youth: “Justice” —Maria Mison
Plate 6. Cultural Rebellion Pt. 1 —Kaina “Kai” Bernal
Plate 7. Minority without a Model —Johnny Huy Nguyễn
Plate 8. BTS Stands for Bisexuals, Trans Folks, & Sapphics —Havannah Tran
Plate 9. Namjooning —Ameena Fareeda
Plate 10. Namjoon and the Sirens —Amanda Lovely
Plate 11. Being cute / Pays mah bills —Prerna Subramanian
Plate 12. Learning Radical Love through BTS —Gracelynne West
Plate 13. BFFs (Butter Friends Forever) —Sophia Cai
Plate 14. Light It Up Like Dynamite —Inez Amihan Anderson and Mimi Thi Nguyen
Plate 15. Gifts —Yutian Wong
IV: “You Never Walk Alone”
	21· The Skinship Diaries
	22· “Gender DOES NOT Exist Outside of Patriarchy”: Flower Boys, Gender Envy, and the Radical Possibilities of JIMIN GENDER
	23· Permission to Desire
	24· Fifty Shades of Butter: Consensual Nonconsent in BTS Fan Fiction
	25· Bangtan Scholars and the Ethics of Care
	26· Sincerely Yours, ARMY: Exploring Fandom as Curatorial Methodology
	27· The Digital ARMY-Ummah: Faith and Community among Muslim BTS Fans
	28· “Let Us Light Up the Night”: BTS and Abolitionist Possibilities at the End of the World
	Outro · For Youth
Bangtan Glossary
Contributors
Index