Ebook: Karaoke Culture

Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism. Whether it's commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how wrestling a hotel minibar into a bathtub is the best way to stick it to The Man, Ugresic writes with unmatched honesty and panache.;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.