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Tong, Koon Fung Benny.

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Singing in Life's Twilight: Serious Karaoke as Everyday Aging Practice in Urban Japan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Singing in Life's Twilight: Serious Karaoke as Everyday Aging Practice in Urban Japan./
Author:	Tong, Koon Fung Benny.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	291 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: C.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10C.
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13871984
ISBN:	9781083496515

Singing in Life's Twilight: Serious Karaoke as Everyday Aging Practice in Urban Japan.
Tong, Koon Fung Benny.

Singing in Life's Twilight: Serious Karaoke as Everyday Aging Practice in Urban Japan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 291 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: C.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Australian National University (Australia), 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Being an avid karaoke singer, I was intrigued to come across what are known in Japan as karaoke classrooms and kissas (a bar/cafe hybrid), during my periods of fieldwork in Tokyo and Osaka in 2013 and 2016. In my visits to these places, I watched (and participated in) how regulars at these karaoke venues, mostly working-class men and women between 60 to 80 years old, sang over the microphone, and chatted and laughed with each other over drinks. Their vivacity and enthusiasm were far removed from the doom and gloom that characterized many media and academic accounts of elderly life in Japan (Coulmas 2007). To these elderly karaoke participants, music and leisure serve as important cultural resources that allow them to build and maintain identities and lifestyles as they age (Bennett 2012; Koizumi 2013). In this thesis, I explore how and why regular participation in the spaces and activities of the karaoke classroom and kissa enable the elderly participants to attain sense of well-being and ikigai, the commitment and direction which makes life worth living (Mathews 1996). To capture the unique modes of engagement that influence the individual and social aspects of these participants' karaoke participation, I mobilize the conceptual lenses of "musicking" as constructed by Small (1998) and "serious leisure" as elaborated by Stebbins (2015), in analyzing the data I obtained from the intensive ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in 2013 and 2016. By detailing the karaoke regulars' attainment of senses of well-being and ikigai through "serious" musical engagement, I paint a livelier picture of elderly life in urban Japan, by not treating old age simply as a crisis to be solved, but rather a period of life that can be negotiated proactively.

ISBN: 9781083496515Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.

Singing in Life's Twilight: Serious Karaoke as Everyday Aging Practice in Urban Japan.
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