Karaoke around the world
Subtitle: global technology, local singing
By: edited by Tōru Mitsui and Shūhei Hosokawa
Contributors: Mitsui, Tōru, 1948-; Hosokawa, Shūhei, 1955-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Karaoke -- Social aspects; Karaoke -- History and criticism
Notes: Originally published in 1998 in the series Routledge research in cultural and media studies

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The genesis of karaoke : how the combination of technology and music evolved / Tōru Mitsui; title: The effects of karaoke on music in Japan / Hiroshi Ogawa; title: Karaoke and middle-aged and older women / Shinobu Oku; title: The adaptability of karaoke in the United Kingdom / William H. Kelly; title: From TV to holidays : karaoke in Italy / Paolo Prato; title: Filling voids along the byway : identification and interpretation in the Swedish forms of karaoke / Johan Fornäs; title: Singing in a cultural enclave : karaoke in a Japanese-Brazilian community / Shūhei Hosokawa; title: The karaoke dilemma : on the interaction between collectivism and individualism in the karaoke space / Casy Man Kong Lum; title: Karaoke in East Asia : modernization, Japanization, or Asianization? / Akiko Ōtake and Shūehei Hosokawa