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.
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超有趣！Neil Postman写的序！
评分超有趣！Neil Postman写的序！
评分超有趣！Neil Postman写的序！
评分超有趣！Neil Postman写的序！
评分方法上是受众研究和ethnography of communication的拧和。一个主要的理论问题在在于如何把唱K理解为communicative practice。作者能做到的只是扩大communication的内涵。接下来的一步则是通过Stanley Fish的interpretive community来把彻底把实践导向结构，好在结构部分因为Chinese American的不同背景（香港，台湾，大马）而内容丰富。一本有趣但缺少野心的identity study。
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