Karaoke Culture

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Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar. Abstract: Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar Content: Praise for dubravka ugresic also by dubravka ugresic copyright contents 1. karaoke culture 1. why karaoke, and what's culture got to do with it? 2. it all began so innocently 3. karaoke is a communist invention! 4. karaoke people 5. post-communist practice: valentina and emir 6. the fantastic feeling of overcoming emptiness 7. karaoke writing 8. the meaning of life 9. the beginning was when i was born, and there is no end . . . 10. and there is no end . . . 2. buy the jellyfish that stung you my digital life cans of tuna fish and the european classics. Captain, sir, we have plenty of coffee!no place for sissies the consolation of the last resource my ear the chauvinist, my eye the misanthrope fear of people filipinas serbian hollywood bitches knowledgeis power the hairdresser with the poodle a postcardfrom bali battle royale assault on the minibar 3. without anesthesia no country for old women old men and their grandchildren a question of perspective 4. the cookie that made a frenchman famous the fly dangerous liaisons the spirit of the kakanian province the elusive substance of the archive afterword. A postcardf rom berlin by david williamsabout the contributors about the publisher.