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...
Jadual kandungan
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...
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 ...