0 a form of entertainment, originally from Japan, in which recordings of the music but not the words of popular songs are played, so that people can sing the words themselves:
While visiting her son at college for the weekend, her reflections began when she noticed the "vitality and happiness" of a karaoke singer.
For female members of the brass band club, karaoke provided another means for keeping up with their friends' taste for media-popular.
There is helpful comment, too, on the place of imitation and the positive qualities of karaoke.
You simply follow the lead of the karaoke machine.
With refreshing honesty he maps his own involvement with karaoke onto an account of the social mechanics, and cultural contexts, of the phenomenon.
Other venues such as disco, karaoke, etc. were also uncommon; only 83 girls (9.5 per cent) and 48 boys (5.5 per cent) chose them.
Then, do you sing their songs in karaoke?
Just as my female informants liked karaoke much more than their male counterparts, the girls seemed far more interested in common music.
