...Karen Tongson This essay explores the disputed origins of the first karaoke machine and explains how karaoke eventually evolved into a term of judgment in star- making media such as reality vocal competition shows. What Tongson calls the double- edged “karaoke standard” — whether a competitor’s...

... (for instance, those wannabes taking selfies in front of public bathroom mirrors, in Marwick’s study); singing and disguised bodies (Jewel dressing frumpily as an ordinary karaoke crooner, in Tongson’s critical reflection); and even schlumpy professorial bodies (Wiener as unlikely celebrity, in Turner...

... The Council has already made an amendment to this effect under a proviso to section 49( 1) of the Advocates Acts, 196 1. (From India Abroad, 17 September 1993. Submitted by Rackesh H. Solomon.) China Says Plush Prisons Have Karaoke Bars...

..., as with Grindstaff and Murray’s reality stars and their fans. Through a study of karaoke as a technology, a vocal performance style, and a global leisure activity, Karen Tongson shows how celebrity, far from depending on the perceived uniqueness, authenticity, and remoteness of stars, instead thrives on fans who...

...-09 artworks 5/3/01 11:32 AM Page 327 ers to sit uncomfortably in front of a lone camera while their own faces were pro- artworks jected back to them on a giant screen. Nisic and Schwarze’s Karaoke—Ein Heimatabend in der Fremde (2000) offered 1960s German...

... Karaoke—Ein Heimatabend in der Fremde (2000) offered 1960s German and French popular music with subtitles translated into absurdity. Further along the route, visitors came across a shopping arcade, eerily aban- doned and completely constructed of glass...

..., video, karaoke, advertising, and so on) began to transmit on a much broader scale images of a new breed of young women, emphasizing fashion, sensuality, sexuality, social mobility, and the fast-moving tempo of a postsocialist consumerist society...

... radio talk shows, television sitcoms, variety shows, karaoke bars-these are the red-hot cultural foods on everyone’s lips. As they rush about making money and a better life, Deng’s people are also losing the ascetic patience Mao’s people once had. Even Mao himself has been repackaged...

... here the comment by our Nunukan karaoke patron who, drawing on the Malay intensifier terlampau or too , noted that the policing of undocumented migrants in the East Malaysian state has now become “too cruel,” in which a present magnitude of cruelty is weighed or graded with respect to past...

... to be escorted to “red light districts,” most often a brothel village or a karaoke bar. At the center of these reports are interviews with prostitutes, preferably the youngest available, who frequently are members of YMKK’s target groups. They then interview Lola at her office or when she is speaking...

... selection of Western, almost all American, films. Many were being sold in English, with Thai subtitles. This was something very new. Karaoke videos of popular songs in English were widely available, with the English words scripted below, syllable by syllable. English language now...

... through business connections (both worked in the jewelry industry). But Li’s husband had accrued considerable credit card debt, and Li went out to work to supplement their income. She chose employment in a karaoke club, accompanying male patrons while they sang songs, drank, and caroused. One night she...

... “karaoke democ- racy”: the melody was played, the words ran along at the bottom, and anyone could sing along. But not the progressives, whose politics seemed finally to have been eliminated from contention altogether.20 One conservative critic likened their eclipse to the fall of Japan’s Berlin Wall...

... evidence of the popularity beyond the Asian region of both Oshin and Dorae- mon (not to mention other assorted mass cultural commodities like Japanese ani- mation and karaoke), there is a persistent desire not only to Japanize Asia but also...

... members) temporary jobs, to get them on their feet. 3 But right now, Tommy is singing karaoke—mostly Mexican ballads and narco- corridos (drug-trafficking ballads)—in what passes for his office. Everyone else is bored stiff, which doesn’t bother Tommy. A former member of Barrio 18 (Eighteenth Street...

.... Police said yesterday the drama began shortly after 10 pm on Friday when Aborigines mingled outside the Post Office Hotel in Oxley Street after a night of drinking and karaoke singing. Fights broke out in the crowd and about 10 police...

... to be a blockbuster as well. In the American grain, the advent of VCRs and the Ted Turner television network‘s penchant to run what it calls “singalong musicals” (where lyrics run along the bottom of the screen, as in karaoke television bars) have prolonged this musical’s afterlife into the 1990s, even...