The possibility machine : music and myth in Las Vegas / edited by Jake Johnson.

• On the Edge of the Desert / Robert Fink -- Reimagining the Popular on the Vegas Circuit: Helen Traubel, Diva Populism, and the Labor of Publicity / Michael M. Reinhard -- It Was Better When the Mob Ran the Town / Janis McKay -- Music as Misdirection / Jason Leddington -- Presence, Absence, and Live Virtuality: Soundscapes in Cirque du Soleil on the Las Vegas Strip / Lynda Paul -- Pura Alegría: Young Adult Musicians Learning Mariachi in Schools and Participating in the Las Vegas Mariachi Scene / Cassaundra Rodriguez and Celine Ayala -- The Master and the Mob: Noël Coward's Musical Identity in the Golden Age of Las Vegas / Arianne Johnson Quinn -- Elvis in Vegas: The King of Rock 'n' Roll and the City of Second Chances / Brian F. Wright -- Céline Dion's and Cher's Vegas Residencies: The Envoiced and Embodied Spectacle of Feminine Aging on the Vegas Stage / Jessica A. Holmes and Michael Kinney -- Viva Viagra: Vegas, Elvis, and a "Little Blue Pill" / James Deaville and Kirstin Bews -- Shall We Go for It? The Viral Hermeneutics of Céline Dion's Las Vegas Show / Sam Murray -- Liberace's Surfaces: Democratic Virtuosity, American Fantasies, and Vegas Pianism / Pheaross Graham -- Comedy Tonight: Broadway Musicals on the Las Vegas Strip / Arreanna Rostosky -- "Trouble Is, We Don't Make the Rules": The Las Vegas Years of Jazz and Classical Violinist Ginger Smock / Laura Risk -- "For Adult Audiences Only": A History of LGBTQ Performers on the Las Vegas Stage / Louis Niebur -- The Real Deal: Impersonation and the American Dream in Branson and Vegas / Joanna Dee Das and Maddie House-Tuck -- Salaciously Family Friendly: The Unlikely Porousness of Sin City and the American Boob Tube / Kelly Kessler -- Representation and Value in Michael Daugherty's Las Vegas Works / Laura Dallman -- Specters of Mine: Musicological Research in the Desert of the Opera / Carlo Lanfossi.

• "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"-- 

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Performing arts  -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Entertainers  -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Music trade  -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. (LCSH)

Identity (Psychology)  -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. (LCSH)

Arts du spectacle  -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

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Musique  -- Industrie -- Nevada -- Las Vegas. (Vedettes-matière)

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