2001
DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2001.26.1.71
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Taipei Is Cold Tonight, or Finding Fate in Taiwanese Karaokes

Abstract: Drawing on the contradictions between the lyrical modes of karaoke and the situation of karaoke performance, this article examines the role of colonial nostalgia and the vernacular concept of fate in contemporary Taiwan. Stressing that colonial nostalgia is a formal property of karaoke lyrics and performance, I attend to the relationship of karaoke to the problem of finding truth in human voices, particularly as a complication of urban life."Taipei Is Cold Tonight" ("Taipak kim-ia leng-chheng-chheng")-perhaps … Show more

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