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Islands of eight million smiles : idol performance and symbolic production in contemporary Japan / Hiroshi Aoyagi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 252.Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2005Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University PressDescription: xvi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674017730
  • 9780674017733
Other title:
  • Islands of 8000000 smiles
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.6408350952 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3918.P67 A84 2005
Contents:
The ethnography of idol production : an overview -- The making of Japanese adolescent role models -- Idol performances and gender identities -- Explorations in the field of competing styles -- Following the trajectory of an idol superstar -- Idol fans and the adoration cult -- The spread of idol performances in new industrial economies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.

The ethnography of idol production : an overview -- The making of Japanese adolescent role models -- Idol performances and gender identities -- Explorations in the field of competing styles -- Following the trajectory of an idol superstar -- Idol fans and the adoration cult -- The spread of idol performances in new industrial economies.

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