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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