Saturday, February 09, 2008

Magnum presents the other side of karaoke culture.

I know so many people who should read [watch] this video from Slate.com:



From http://www.slate.com/id/2182187

One night and one roll of film. Chien-Chi Chang's photographs of "a night in a karaoke bar" explore a different scene from that which we are used to in Western karaoke establishments.
He evocatively captures the other side of karaoke culture, in which divorced or married Vietnamese women entertain Taiwanese men, portraying what some suggest is a new "concubine phenomenon" emerging from karaoke culture in certain parts of Asia.

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