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Contents

• Note on Terminology and Romanization  xi
• Acknowledgments  xiii
• Introduction. On Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader / Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong  1
• I. “You Can Call Me Artist, You Can Call Me IDOL!”: Contexts, Genealogies, and Aesthetics of Performance  29
• 1. Tradition, Transition, and Trends: Contextualizing BTS’s Gugak-Inspired Performance of “IDOL”; / Wonseok Lee  33
• 2. Hustlin’ until Dope: How BTS Rap Line Cultivated Their Hip-Hop Identities / Nykeah Parham
• 3. “Life Goes On”: Social and Musical Space in BTS’s Midpandemic Album BE / Stefania Piccialli  57
• 4. Blood, Sweat, and Tears: BTS, Bruegel, and the Baroque / Marci Kwon  68
• 5. Martha and the Swans: BTS, “Black Swan,” and Cold War Dance History / Yutian Wong  79
• II. “Mikrokosmos”: The Universe of BTS  91
• 6. The Platformization of K-Pop: From Weverse to NFTs / Dai Yong Jin  95
• 7. Under the Same Sky: Synchronicity in BTS Media, Online and Offline / Despina Kakoudaki  107
• 8. Bridging the Senses: Medium and Materiality from Music Videos to Graphic Lyrics / Andrew Ty  120
• 9. Sweet Chili and Cajun: Tasting the Power of Language with the BTS McDonald’s Meal / Melody Lynch-Kimery  133
• 10. Fragmentary Redemptions: ARMY, RPF, and the AU at the Heart of the Bangtan Universe / Regina Yung Lee  144
• 11. “Black Guy Reacts to BTS for the First Time”:  Provocations from a Black ARMY / Jheanelle Brown  157
• 12. “Your Story Becomes Our Universe”: Fan Edits, Shitposts, and the BTS Database / Jaclyn Zhou  169
• 13. Jung Kook’s Button, or the GIF That Keeps on Giving / Mimi Thi Nguyen  180
• III. “Not Today”: Geopolitics and Activism  191
• 14. Empire Goes On: Transpacific Circuits of Care Work / Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez  195
• 15. Like a Criminal Undercover: Love, Hate, and the Performance of Inclusion / Rachel Kuo  206
• 16. Recoding the Bot: ARMY and Digital Transgression / Andrea L. Acosta  221
• 17. Break the Structure: BTS ARMY Digital Activism and State Surveillance in Indonesia’s Omnibus Law Protest / Karlina Octaviany  229
• 18. From Purple to Pink: The Filipino ARMY for Leni and the Fight for Good Governance / Allison Anne Gray Atis, Noel Sajid I. Murad, and Hannah Ruth L. Sison  241
• 19. “Yoongi, Can You Hear Me?”: Demanding Justice for #Melisa and ARMY Activism in Turkey / Alptekin Keskin and Mutlu Binark  254
• 20. “Spring Day”: Nostalgia, Pop Mediation, and Public Mourning / Michelle Cho  264
• Interlude. “Magic Shop”: So Show Me, I’ll Show You (My Fanart)  279
• IV. “You Never Walk Alone”: Fandom and Community
• 21. The Skinship Diaries / Sara Murphy  289
• 22. “Gender DOES NOT Exist Outside of Patriarchy”: Flower Boys, Gender Envy, and the Radical Possibilities of JIMIN GENDER / S. Heijin Lee  299
• 23. Permission to Desire / Rani Neutill  313
• 24. Fifty Shades of Butter: Consensual Nonconsent in BTS Fan Fiction / Raymond San Diego  322
• 25. Bangtan Scholars and the Ethics of Care / Courtney Lazore  335
• 26. Sincerely Yours, ARMY: Exploring Fandom as Curatorial Methodology / Sophia Cai  345
• 27. The Digital ARMY-Ummah: Faith and Community among Muslim BTS Fans / Mariam Elba  357
• 28. “Let Us Light Up the Night”: BTS and Abolitionist Possibilities at the End of the World / UyenThi Tran Myhre  368
• Outro. For Youth / Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong  379
• Bangtan Glossary  385
• Contributors  389
• Index  399