global technology, local singing Mitsui, Toru creator editor Hosokawa, Shuhei 1955- Mitsui, To�ru 1948- text enk London Routledge 2001 monographic eng

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224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm 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. edited by Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa Originally published: 1998 Karaoke Social aspects 306.484 0415258545 010511 7277