Mitsui, Toru        <br/><br/>
Karaoke around the world :  global technology, local singing / 
edited by Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa 
 - London :  Routledge,  2001 
 - 224 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm 
 - Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;  3 .
<br/><br/> Originally published: 1998 
<br/><br/>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.       
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415258545 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Karaoke--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.484