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ISBN 10: 0791460320

ISBN 13: 978-0791460320

Author: William W. Kelly

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.

Table of contents:

1. B-Boys and B-Girls: Rap Fandom and Consumer Culture in Japan IAN CONDRY

2. Letters from the Heart: Negotiating Fan–Star Relationships in Japanese Popular Music CHRISTINE

3. Buying Intimacy: Proximity and Exchange at a Japanese Rock Concert CAROLYN S. STEVENS

4. Sense and Sensibility at the Ballpark: What Fans Make of Professional Baseball in Modern Japan WI

5. It’s a “Gottsan” World: The Role of the Patron in Sumo R. KENJI TIERNEY

6. Rakugo Fans at Play: Promoting the Art, Creating Community, Inventing Selves LORIE BRAU

7. Vinyl Record Collecting as Material Practice: The Japanese Case SHUHEI HOSOKAWA and HIDEAKI MATSU

8. Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japan’s Amateur Comics Commun

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