Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing （Edited By Shuhei Hos

The karaoke machine is much more than an instrument which allows us to be a star for three minutes. The contributors to this lively collection address the importance of karaoke within Japanese culture and its spread to other parts of the world, exploring the influence of karaoke in such different societies as the United Kingdom, North America, Italy, Sweden, Korea and Brazil. They also consider the nature of the karaoke experience, which involves people as singers, co-singers and listeners.
..."this book is recommended reading for anyone interested in cultural practices in music making. It bears consideration for its conclusions about how and why different cultures adopt a musical technology and share musical behaviors, and for its look into the ways authors from different cultures think about these issues.."
-Thom Gencarelli, Montclair State University
 
About the Editors
Shuhei Hosokawa (1955-)  is the Chief of the Faculty of Music at Kyoto City University of Arts.  He has published extensively on Japanese-Brazilian culture, as well as popular music in Japan, including Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing (co-editor, 1998).
Toru Mitsui (1940-2023)  is Professor Emeritus of English and Music at Kanazawa University, Japan, where he taught the first postgraduate course in popular music studies in the country. He has been a corresponding editor for Popular Music since 1983, is on the Editorial Board of Popular Music History, and is an International Advisory Editor for Bloomsbury's Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. 
His publications in English include Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing (co-edited with S. Hosokawa, 1998) and Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music (edited, 2014).