Pop Pacific Pop Pacific 9 March 2023 Introduction to the Pop Pacific 16 March 2023 Prewar Transnational Pop Stars 23 March 2023 What is K-pop and J-pop (part 1) 30 March 2023 What is K-pop? (part 2) 6 April 2023 K-culture and J-culture 13 April 2023 Shanghai: The 1930s, Jazz, and Popular Music in “The Paris of the East” 20 April 2023 Hawai'i, Okinawa and the Pop Pacific 27 April 2023 The “Butterfly” effect: how a Boston music teacher and an ambitious Japanese bureaucrat changed Japanese music 4 May 2023 Transnational K-pop (part 1) 11 May 2023 Forging the formula: the making of Japan’s first “hit song,” 1914 18 May 2023 Transnational K-pop (2): “K” as Asian America 25 May 2023 Tokyo March 1 June 2023 Transnational K-pop, part 3 (China)
