Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
27 December 2006
KARAOKE The name means ‘empty orchestra’ but Japanese musicologist Toru Mitsui calls it ‘the orchestra on the recording is void of vocals’, which brings in the fact that there is a machine involved. A new study shows how it is a global phenomenon that changes in each country that takes it up.
At the Lucky Voice Club in Soho London Laurie Taylor is joined by Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology at Brunel University and author of Celebrity, Dick Hobbs, Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Xun Zhou, Research Fellow at SOAS and co-author of a recently completed global study called Karaoke.
They discuss the cultural differences between the performance of Karaoke in Japan, China, South East Asia, North America, Britain, the rest of Europe and Brazil.
Additional information:
Dr Xun Zhou, ESRC Research Fellow, Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Karaoke: A Global Phenomenon
by Xun Zhou (Author), Francesca Tarocco (Author)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1861893000 - ISBN-13: 978-1861893000
(published March 2007)
Chris Rojek, Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London
