Japanese anime song fandom in crisis: Live music attendance during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
I focus on Japanese anime song fandom during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing the changes in fans' live music attendance and their social relationships. Specifically, semistructured interviews were carried out with nineteen fans of anime song singer Nana Mizuki, all of whom had regularly a...
| Publicado en: | Transformative Works & Cultures Vol. 46; pp. 1 - 16 |
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Organization for Transformative Works - Karen Hellekson
2025
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