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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.6.3778

Popular Song's Lyrics as Tourism Language: Focusing on Exoticism  

Yang, Soung-hoon (Division of International Tourism, Silla University)
Choi, Mun-yong (Department of Hotel Management & Convention, Chung-Woon University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.6, 2015 , pp. 3778-3786 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper aimed to explore the possible popular song's linkage to tourism promotion material. Especially focusing on the lyrics of Korean popular song, which explicitly containing exoticism in title or lyrics in early and mid of 20 centuries, this research verified how authors represented the one of Dann's language of tourism thesis: strangeness perspective in tourism and language of differentiation. Result suggested that song writers, as of their imaginary by-product or personal experience, present exoticism in lyrics of song in various ways: exaggerating, creating, stereo-typing exotic place. Fulfilling the Dann's idea, songs elaborately delivered familiar words, conspicuously by personifying place, allocating young ladies and mentioning origin or hometown. The research was efforts to find the origin of entertainment contents savvy-tourism promotion and also traced potential tourist's collective imagination toward potential overseas tourism destination.
Keywords
Exoticism; Language of Tourism; Personification; Popular Song;
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