Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Locating the Fans William W. Kelly 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 R. Yano 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 William W. Kelly 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 Matsuoka 8. Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japan's Amateur Comics Community Matthew Thorn Glossary of Japanese Terms Contributors Index

About the Author

William W. Kelly is Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan.

Reviews

"This book is rich in ethnographic detail and presents a window on Japanese society that has not been explored in depth until now. It addresses the question of what constitutes a fan in cultural context along with the issue of identity formation, and does so by looking at particularly interesting groups of people."