Karaoke around the world : global technology, local singing / edited by Tōru Mitsui and Shūhei Hosokawa.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge research in cultural and media studiesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: xi, 206 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415163714
- 9780415163712
- 0415258545
- 9780415258548
- 306.484
- ML3795 .K22 1998
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.484 KAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A409361B |
Originally published: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The genesis, definition, and historical overview / Toru Mitsui -- The effects of karaoke on music life in Japan / Hiroshi Ogawa -- Middle-aged and older women and karaoke / Shinobu Oku -- The adaptability of karaoke in the United Kingdom / William Kelly -- From TV to holidays : karaoke in Italy / Paolo Prato -- Filling voids along the byway : identification and interpretation in the Swedish forms of karaoke / Johan Fornas -- Singing in a cultural enclave : karaoke in Japanese-Brazilian community / Shuhei Hosokawa -- The karaoke dilemna : on the interaction between collectivism and individualism / Casy Man Kong Lum -- Karaoke in East Asia / Akiko Otake and Shuehei Hosokawa.
"The karaoke machine is much more than an instrument which allows us to be a star for three minutes. Using the theoretical framework of thinkers from Erving Goffman to Foucault, the contributors to this volume consider the technological, spatial, communicative, ethnic, national, political, musical and gender aspects of karaoke in specific places and times across the globe. This study explores the influence of karaoke in such different societies as the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Korea and Japan. The essays not only answer a variety of questions about this phenomenon, but also open up possible ways of theorising contemporary music practice in the future."--Publisher description.
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