Books about Karaoke from Amazon.com

A dramatic debut, Real Karaoke People juxtaposes tradition and pop culture to bridge generations and continents in a way both heart-rending and real. Poems and prose engage readers with vivid and emotional portrayals of immigrant life and scrutinize conceptions of race, class, and ethnicity.

Through everything from frank confession to lyric verse, this collection offers an open yet often highly individual account of contemporary America and the aftermath of assimilation. At once nostalgic and critical, Real Karaoke People offers a gritty, honest, and compelling worldview.

Ed Bok Lee is an award-winning spoken word artist, author, playwright, and teacher. He attended kindergarten in Seoul, grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota, and has since lived in a half-dozen cities around the world.

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Karaoke creates its own culture, while reflecting much about the wider culture and the place of popular music as a media form. Its complexities and nuances make karaoke a marvelous ethnographic subject, and Rob Drew is compelling in his experience and understanding. Karaoke Nights is both a keen observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional rollercoaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer..
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Classical Karaoke for Kids is a book with CD designed to teach anyone, including preschool children, to recognize 37 classical music themes, to know the names of the themes composer, and to be knowledgeable about and love classical music. It is a companion to Classical Magic's Themes To Remember books with CDs, Volumes 1 and 2, also available from Amazon.com. The fully illustrated book based on the author's humorous and educational lyrics results in an amazingly fun-filled and successful teaching method that developed over many years of teaching by the author..
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When karaoke calls, get ready to steal the show. Karaoke Queen Raina Lee helps beginners and veterans conquer stage fright, pick songs to showcase vocal talent (or disguise a lack thereof), and master their moves (mic twirls, Mick Jagger kicks, etc.). She turns what can be a terrifying social rite of passage into a party no one wants to miss. With lists of the best songs for all occasions, advice from World Karaoke Champions, awesome hand-drawn typography and illustrations, plus party scene snapshots of people singing their hearts out, this pocket-size resource will turn up the volume on happy hour. Rock on..
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To come to Burma, one of the few places where despotism still dominates, is to take both a physical and an emotional journey and, like most Burmese, to become caught up in the daily management of fear. Based on Monique Skidmore's experiences living in the capital city of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascism is the first ethnography of fear in Burma and provides a sobering look at the psychological strategies employed by the Burmese people in order to survive under a military dictatorship that seeks to invade and dominate every aspect of life.

Skidmore looks at the psychology and politics of fear under the SLORC and SPDC regimes. Encompassing the period of antijunta student street protests, her work describes a project of authoritarian modernity, where Burmese people are conscripted as army porters and must attend mass rallies, chant slogans, construct roads, and engage in other forms of forced labor. In a harrowing portrayal of life deep within an authoritarian state, recovering heroin addicts, psychiatric patients, girl prostitutes, and poor and vulnerable women in forcibly relocated townships speak about fear, hope, and their ongoing resistance to four decades of oppression.

"Karaoke fascism" is a term the author uses to describe the layers of conformity that Burmese people present to each other and, more important, to the military regime. This complex veneer rests on resistance, collaboration, and complicity, and describes not only the Burmese form of oppression but also the Burmese response to a life of domination. Providing an inside look at the madness and the militarization of the city, Skidmore argues that the weight of fear, the anxiety of constant vulnerability, and the numbing demands of the State upon individuals force Burmese people to cast themselves as automata; they deliberately present lifeless hollow bodies for the State's use, while their minds reach out into the cosmos for an array of alternate realities. Skidmore raises ethical and methodological questions about conducting research on fear when doing so evokes the very emotion in question, in both researcher and informant.

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Your children will enjoy singing along with Elmo and the Sesame Street Gang with 20 song buttons and a working microphone..
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KARAOKE, KARAOKE, KARAOKE is the definitive book about the phenomenon now taking over the late night club circuit Begin with the basics, learn how to set up & run the sound, video and lights, how to rotate singers, how to handle drunks, how to do contests, and much more. Also includes information, suggestions and ideas for several imaginative promotions..
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Songbook & Sound Choice Karaoke CD With TNT (Tone N Tempo Changer) Alfred s Ultimate Sing-Along books give you everything you need to sing with your favorite songs. Each songbook has the lyrics, music notation, and chords to eight great songs, with lyric-only pages included. There are two versions of every song on the CD: a full-performance track with an amazing sound-alike recording and a professional accompaniment track so you can sing along. When you use the CD in your MAC or Windows-based computer, the TNT (Tone N Tempo) Changer lets you easily change the key and tempo to individualize the playback for just your voice and style. Contents: Don't Rain on My Parade, Barbra Streisand ( Funny Girl) Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born), Barbra Streisand ( A Star Is Born) Fame, Irene Cara ( Fame) I Believe in You and Me, Whitney Houston ( The Preacher's Wife) Theme from New York, New York Liza Minnelli (New York, New York) Over the Rainbow Judy Garland (The Wizard of Oz) The Rose Bette Midler (The Rose) The Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Midler (Beaches).
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