TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitsui,Tōru
AU  - Hosokawa,Shūhei
TI  - Karaoke around the world: global technology, local singing 
T2  - Routledge research in cultural and media studies
SN  - 0415163714
AV  - ML3795 .K22 1998
U1  - 306.484 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Karaoke
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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