In search of a voice : karaoke and the construction of identity in Chinese America
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書誌事項
In search of a voice : karaoke and the construction of identity in Chinese America
（Everyday communication : case studies of behavior in context / Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz & Stuart J. Sigman, series editors）
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996
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Bibliography: p. 117-122
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
Originating in Japan early in the 1970s as a simple sing-along technology, karaoke has become a hybrid media form designed to integrate mass-mediated popular music, video images, computer graphics, and the live musical performance of its human users. Not only has karaoke become a multimillion-dollar entertainment industry, its varied uses have also evolved into diverse popular cultural and social practices among many people around the world. Based on a two-year ethnographic study, this book offers a penetrating analysis of how karaoke is used in the expression, maintenance, and (re)construction of social identity as part of the Chinese American experience. It also explores the theoretical implications of interaction between the media audience and karaoke as both an electronic communication technology and a cultural practice.
This book analyzes the social origins of karaoke and the dramaturgical characteristics of karaoke events, and explains how various musical genres are reframed as karaoke music. It also visits the numerous karaoke scenes in their natural context -- the sites of the actual consumption of media products, such as expensive private homes and fancy hotel ballrooms in the affluent suburbs of New Jersey, working-class restaurants and nightclubs in the multiethnic neighborhoods in Flushing, Queens, and Cantonese opera music clubs in New York's Chinatown. Finally, the book offers an intimate analysis of how karaoke has been adopted by several interpretive communities of first-generation Chinese immigrants not only as popular entertainment but also as a means to help (re)define their social identity and way of life.
目次
Contents: N. Postman, Foreword. Series Editors' Preface. Understanding Karaoke as Communication. Media in the Chinese American Experience: The Formation and Mediation of the Diaspora. Karaoke as Cultural Connection and Translation: The Voice of a Hong Kong Cantonese Community in New York's Chinatown. Karaoke as Status Symbol: The Voice of a Taiwanese Community in the Affluent Suburbs of New Jersey. Karaoke as Escape: The Voice of a Malaysian Chinese Community in Flushing, New York. Karaoke and the Construction of Identity. Appendix: Notes on Methodology.
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