Fanning the Flames
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Fanning the Flames

Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fanning the Flames

Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan

About this book

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

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 rakugo storytelling; a club of middle-aged female fans of a popular music star; youthful followers of Japan's longest-running rock band; vinyl record collectors; and a thriving community of girls and women who produce and devour amateur comics. Grounded in close, often extended fieldwork with the fans themselves, each case study is an effort to understand both the personal pleasures and political economies of fandoms. The contributors explore the many ways that fans in and of Japanese mass culture actively search for intimacy and identity amid the powerful corporate structures that produce the leisure and entertainment of today's Japan.

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Table of contents

  1. Fanning the Flames
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Locating the Fans WILLIAM W. KELLY
  6. 1. B-Boys and B-Girls: Rap Fandom and Consumer Culture in Japan IAN CONDRY
  7. 2. Letters from the Heart: Negotiating Fanā€“Star Relationships in Japanese Popular Music CHRISTINE R. YANO
  8. 3. Buying Intimacy: Proximity and Exchange at a Japanese Rock Concert CAROLYN S. STEVENS
  9. 4. Sense and Sensibility at the Ballpark: What Fans Make of Professional Baseball in Modern Japan WILLIAM W. KELLY
  10. 5. Itā€™s a ā€œGottsanā€ World: The Role of the Patron in Sumo R. KENJI TIERNEY
  11. 6. Rakugo Fans at Play: Promoting the Art, Creating Community, Inventing Selves LORIE BRAU
  12. 7. Vinyl Record Collecting as Material Practice: The Japanese Case SHUHEI HOSOKAWA and HIDEAKI MATSUOKA
  13. 8. Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japanā€™s Amateur Comics Community MATTHEW THORN
  14. Glossary of Japanese Terms
  15. Contributors
  16. Index