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Rebellion of the Niche Market -Western Art Music in YouTube Environment

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2024, (45), pp.363~387
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.013
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 25, 2024
  • Accepted : June 26, 2024
  • Published : June 30, 2024

Yi Eun Chung 1 YI, SANG WOOK 2

1한양대학교 음악연구소
2한양대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the activities in relation to Western art music within the YouTube space, focusing on the activities of TOWMOO, one of the most popular classical music YouTube channels in South Korea. YouTube provides virtual space where one can observe how Western art music is consumed, circulated and changed in the new media ecology. YouTube also offers a platform for virtual/real community around Western art music in certain cultural territory. This study aims to analyze how the behavior of classical music YouTubers in South Korea has changed along with changes in YouTube’s corporate strategies, and discusses how the participatory behaviors of classical music YouTubers continue the tradition of Western art music in South Korea. In particular, this study looks into the changes in the media ecology of YouTube and the ways in which the tradition of Western art music develops new markets, by tracing the changing process in TOWMOO’s contents.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.