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Edited by Israh S.

SOURCES
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story    • The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story  
Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity by Georgina Gregory
Multiple damnations: deconstructing the critical response to boy band phenomena by Mark Duffett
Unpacking K-pop in America: The Subversive Potential of Male K-pop Idols’ Soft Masculinity by Jeehyun Jenny Lee
Parasocial Relationships with Musicians by Kate Szer Kurtin, Nina O’Brien, Deya Roy, and Linda Dam https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/ar...
“At War for OPPA and Identity”: Competitive Performativity among Korean-Pop Fandoms by Brittany Tinaliga https://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/view...
Beefing Up the Beefcake: Male Objectification, Boy Bands, and the Socialized Female Gaze by Dorie Bailey https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=37....
https://icds.ee/en/the-capitalist-con...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/...
https://thriveworks.com/blog/parasoci...
https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/13/1...
https://www.allkpop.com/article/2021/...

0:00 - intro
3:40 - history of the boy band
16:25 - boy band: manufactured
28:28 - the fandom