Karaoke around the world global technology, local singing - Mitsui, T¯oru 1948-; Hosokawa, Sh¯uhei 1955- (London Routledge, 1998)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Karaoke -- History and criticism