{"id":2443,"date":"2008-12-20T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2008-12-20T18:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:20:41","slug":"new-book-about-karaoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/20\/new-book-about-karaoke\/","title":{"rendered":"New book about karaoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A JET alum in Seattle shared a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/int\/2008\/12\/18\/karaoke\/\" target=\"_blank\">link to this interesting article on Salon.com<\/a> about a guy named Brian Raftery who wrote a book about karaoke called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0306815834?tag=saloncom08-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=0306815834&amp;adid=057XCAEBYCQ1APVSDB47&amp;\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;:\u00a0 How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the article, though I think his explanation about the origin of karaoke slips into cultural generalizations, especially regarding the question of how karaoke became so big in Japan before the US.\u00a0 My understanding is that, even before karaoke machines, there was a tradition at <em>enkai<\/em>s of making people stand up and sing a song on their own.\u00a0 Microphones and later karaoke machines were add-ons to the experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Any other JET perspectives or comments on karaoke?\u00a0 Post them below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A JET alum in Seattle shared a link to this interesting article on Salon.com about a guy named Brian Raftery who wrote a book about karaoke called Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;:\u00a0 How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life. 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