{"product_id":"the-possibility-machine-9780252087530","title":"The Possibility Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cp\u003e Introduction: Flash!--Splash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJake Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part One: The Road to Vegas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1 On the Edge of the Desert \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Fink\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2 Reimagining the Popular on the Vegas Circuit: Helen Traubel, Diva Populism, and the Labor of Publicity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael M. Reinhard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3 It Was Better When the Mob Ran the Town \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanis McKay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Two: Overheard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4 Music as Misdirection \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJason Leddington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5 Presence, Absence, and Live Virtuality: Soundscapes in Cirque du Soleil on the Las Vegas Strip \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynda Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6  Pura Alegria: Young Adult Musicians Learning Mariachi in Schools and Participating in the Las Vegas Mariachi Scene \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassaundra Rodriguez and Celine Ayala\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Three: Second Chances \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7 The Master and the Mob: Noël Coward’s Musical Identity in the Golden Age of Las Vegas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArianne Johnson Quinn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 8  Elvis in Vegas: The King of Rock ’n’ Roll and the City of Second Chances \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian F. Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 9 Celine Dion and Cher’s Vegas Residencies: The Envoiced and Embodied Spectacle of Feminine Aging on the Vegas Stage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica A. Holmes and Michael Kinney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Four: Virtuoso Fantastique \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 10 Viva Viagra: Vegas, Elvis, and “A Little Blue Pill” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Deaville and Kirstin Bews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 11 Shall We Go for It? The Hermeneutics of Celine Dion’s Las Vegas Show \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSam Murray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 12 Liberace’s Surfaces: Democratic Virtuosity, American Fantasies, and Vegas Pianism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePheaross Graham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Five: Making Book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 13 Comedy Tonight: Broadway Musicals on the Las Vegas Strip \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArreanna Rostosky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 14 “Trouble Is, We Don’t Make the Rules”: The Las Vegas Years of Jazz and Classical Violinist Ginger Smock \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Risk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 15 “For Adult Audiences Only”: A History of LGBTQ Performers on the Las Vegas Stage \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis Niebur\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Six: Leaving Vegas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 16 The Real Deal: Impersonation and the American Dream in Branson and Vegas \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanna Dee Das and Maddie House-Tuck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 17 Salaciously Family Friendly: The Unlikely Porousness of Sin City and the American Boob Tube \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelly Kessler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 18 Representation and Value in Michael Daugherty’s Las Vegas Works \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Dallman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 19 Specters of Mine: Musicological Research in the Desert of the Opera \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlo Lanfossi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400525357399,"sku":"9780252087530","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252087530.jpg?v=1730470898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-possibility-machine-9780252087530","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}