Kevin Brown 
Karaoke Idols [EPUB ebook] 
Popular Music and the Performance of Identity

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Most ethnographers don’t achieve what Kevin Brown did while conducting their research: in his two years spent at a karaoke bar near Denver, Colorado, he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing. Along the way, he learned everything you might ever want to know about karaoke and the people who enjoy it.

The result is Karaoke Idols, a close ethnography of life at a karaoke bar that reveals just what we are doing when we take up the mic – and how we shape our identities, especially in terms of gender, ethnicity, and class, through performances in everyday life. Marrying a comprehensive introduction to the history of public singing and karaoke with a rich analysis of karaoke performers and the community that their shared performances generate, Karaoke Idols is a book for both the casual reader and the scholar: a fascinating exploration of our urge to perform and the intersection of technology and culture that makes it so seductively easy to do so.

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Acknowledgments

Synopsis

About the Author

Overture

Chapter 1: My Way

Chapter 2: Turning Japanese

Chapter 3: Boys Don’t Cry

Chapter 4: Paint It Black

Chapter 5: Friends in Low Places

Chapter 6: Sweet Caroline

Finale

Afterword: Karaoke as Performance Reactivation by Philip Auslander 

Mengenai Pengarang

Kevin Brown is a professor at Lee University. He has published articles on Kurt Vonnegut, Doris Lessing, Tony Earley and Ralph Ellison, in addition to a critical study of authors who attempt to retell the gospel stories: They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels. In addition, he has published three books of poetry: Liturgical Calendar: Poems (Wipf and Stock); A Lexicon of Lost Words (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press); and Exit Lines (Plain View Press), and a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again.

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 180 ● ISBN 9781783204465 ● Saiz fail 3.1 MB ● Penerbit Intellect Books Ltd ● Bandar raya Bristol ● Negara GB ● Diterbitkan 2015 ● Edisi 1 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 5456583 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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