Roald Maliangkay is Senior Lecturer in Korean studies and Head of the Center of Korean Studies at the Australian National University. He specialises in Korean pop and folk music, as well as popular culture across East Asia. Recent journal articles include “Koreans Performing for Foreign Troops: The Occidentalism of the C.M.C. and K.P.K.,” East Asian History 37 (2011) and “There is No Amen in Shaman: Traditional Music Preservation and Christianity in South Korea,” Asian Music 45:1 (2014). This year he has brought out a co-edited volume on K-pop fandom, K-pop – The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry (Routledge, UK, 2014); he is now finalising a monograph on the preservation of Korean folksongs with the working title, Broken Voices: Preserving Korean Folksongs from Seoul’s Periphery.
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