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    <![CDATA[Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[Armed with a keen eye and a terrible singing voice, writer Brian Raftery sets out across the globe, tracing karaoke's evolution from cult fad to multi-million dollar phenomenon. In Japan, he meets Daisuke Inouye, the godfather of karaoke; in Thailand, he follows a group of Americans hoping to win the Karaoke World Championships; and in New York City, he hangs out backstage with the world's longest-running heavy-metal karaoke band. Along the way, Raftery chronicles his own time as an obsessive karaoke fan, recalling a life's worth of noisy relationships and poor song choices, and analyzing the karaoke-bar merits of such artists as Prince, Bob Dylan and Fugazi. Part cultural history, part memoir, Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life is a hilarious and densely reported look at the liberating effects of a good sing-along. The first chapter is online here:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=IhqSOTDlx3EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=brian+raftery#PPA9,M1" title="http://books.google.com/books?id=IhqSOTDlx3EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=brian+raftery#PPA9,M1">http://books.google.com/books?id=IhqSOTD...</a>]]>
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