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Dr William Kelly
Dr William Kelly (D.Phil., Oxon) is Research Associate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Studies and Professor at the School of Global Studies, Tama University (Tokyo). He has previously held post-doctoral research and teaching positions at University of Manchester (1999-2001), University of Oxford (2001-2002; 2007-2009) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2003-2005).
Research Interests
Dr Kelly's main research interests are related to leisure, popular culture and the popular culture industries in Japan and the movement (and adaptation) of Japanese popular culture across social, cultural and national borders. Other research interests include social memory, heritage and nostalgia; methodology and explanation in the social sciences and the relationship between society and technology. The focus of his doctoral research was the role of karaoke singing in contemporary Japanese society. Subsequent research has examined the introduction, popularisation and adaptation of karaoke in the United Kingdom. Other research projects have encompassed association and community formation amongst expatriate Japanese living in the UK; entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Japan; production and localization of videogames in Japan and gaming and gambling. Dr. Kelly is currently developing research related to communities of technologists living and working in Tokyo. Research to date has been gratefully funded by the ESRC, the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, the Sasakawa Fund of Great Britain and the Japan Foundation.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Kelly has contributed to Japan-related programmes on BBC radio and Scottish Television and is an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and The Japan Times.
Publications
Books and monographs
Forthcoming. Empty Orchestras, SUNY Press.
Selected Journal articles, book chapters and other published papers
Forthcoming (2011). 'Karaoke’s Coming Home: Japan’s Empty Orchestras in the United Kingdom', Leisure Studies 30.
2010. 'Censoring Violence in Virtual Dystopia: Issues in the rating of videogames in Japan and of Japanese videogames outside Japan', in J. Talmadge Wright, A. Lukacs and D.G. Embrick (eds) Utopic Dreams and Apocalyptic Fantasies: Critical Approaches to Researching Video Game Play, Lexington Books, Chapter 8.
2007. 'Gaming and Gambling in Japan: Overview and Themes for Further Research', Europe-Japan Research Centre Occasional Papers No. 3, Oxford Brookes University.
2001. 'Training for Leisure: Karaoke and the seriousness of play in Japan', in Joy Hendry and Massimo Raveri (eds) Japan At Play, Routledge.
2001 (1998 hardcover). 'Karaoke in Pub Culture: Great Britain', in Toru Mitsui and Shuhei Hosokawa (eds) Karaoke Around the World: Singing Culture in the Era of Digital Technology, Routledge, 83-91.
1998. 'Japan’s Empty Orchestras: echoings of Japanese culture in the performance of karaoke', in D.P. Martinez (ed.) The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture, Cambridge University Press, 75-87.
