Kelly Fanning the Flames

Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8538-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Japan in Transition

A fascinating look at fans of a variety of popular culture phenomena in Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, William W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Locating the Fans
William W. Kelly

1. B-Boys and B-Girls: Rap Fandom and Consumer Culture in Japan
Ian Condry

2. Letters from the Heart: Negotiating Fan-Star Relationships in Japanese Popular Music
Christine R. Yano

3. Buying Intimacy: Proximity and Exchange at a Japanese Rock Concert
Carolyn S. Stevens

4 Sense and Sensibility at the Ballpark: What Fans Make of Professional Baseball in Modern Japan

William W. Kelly

5. It's a "Gottsan" World: The Role of the Patron in Sumo
R. Kenji Tierney

6. Rakugo Fans at Play: Promoting the Art, Creating Community, Inventing Selves
Lorie Brau

7. Vinyl Record Collecting as Material Practice: The Japanese Case
Shuhei Hosokawa and Hideaki Matsuoka
8. Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japan's Amateur Comics Community
Matthew Thorn
Glossary of Japanese Terms
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William W. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan.