Fanning the flames : fans and consumer culture in contemporary Japan / edited by William W. Kelly.
"Fanning the Flames examines the worlds of fans in the exuberant and commercialized popular culture of contemporary Japan. The works collected here profile denizens of all-night rap clubs; sumo stable patrons: passionate fan clubs of a professional baseball team; enthusiasts of traditional raku...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
2004.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Japan in transition.
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Table of Contents:
- B-Boys and b-girls: rap fandom and consumer culture in Japan / Ian Condry
- Letters from the heart: Negotiating fan-star relationships in Japanese popular music / Christine R. Yano
- Buying intimacy: proximity and exchange at a Japanese rock concert / Carolyn S. Stevens
- Sense and sensibility at the ballpark: what fans make of professional baseball in modern Japan / William W. Kelly
- It's a "gottsan" world: the role of the patron in Sumo / R. Kenji Tierney
- Rakugo fans at play: promoting the art, creating community, inventing selves / Lorie Brau
- Vinyl record collecting as material practice: the Japanese case / Shuhei Hosokawa and Hideaki Matsuokoa
- Girls and women getting out of hand: the pleasure and politics of Japan's amateur comics community / Matthew Thorn.