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The Possibility Machine - Music and Myth in Las Vegas
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The Possibility Machine - Music and Myth in Las Vegas
Series: Music in American Life
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Singular and star-studded writings on America’s neon-lit
playground At once a Technicolor wonderland and the embodiment of
American mythology, Las Vegas exists at the Ground Zero of a
reverence for risk-taking and the transformative power of a winning
hand. Jake Johnson edits a collection of short essays and flash
ideas that probes how music-making and soundscapes shape the City
of Second Chances. Treating topics ranging from Cher to Cirque de
Soleil, the contributors delve into how music and musicians
factored in the early development of Vegas’s image; the role of
local communities of musicians and Strip mainstays in sustaining
tensions between belief and disbelief; the ways aging showroom
stars provide a sense of timelessness that inoculates visitors
against the outside world; the link connecting fantasies of sexual
prowess and democracy with the musical values of Liberace and
others; considerations of how musicians and establishments gambled
with identity and opened the door for audience members to explore
Sin City–only versions of themselves; and the echoes and energy
generated by the idea of Las Vegas as it travels across the
country. Contributors: Celine Ayala, Kirstin Bews, Laura Dallman,
Joanna Dee Das, James Deaville, Robert Fink, Pheaross Graham,
Jessica A. Holmes, Maddie House-Tuck, Jake Johnson, Kelly Kessler,
Michael Kinney, Carlo Lanfossi, Jason Leddington, Janis McKay, Sam
Murray, Louis Niebur, Lynda Paul, Arianne Johnson Quinn, Michael M.
Reinhard, Laura Risk, Cassaundra Rodriguez, Arreanna Rostosky, and
Brian F. Wright
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