Description
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In Las Vegas, some performers play to a packed house; for others, the seats are mostly empty. But no matter the headcount, in Sin City, great
music was made famous by the Rat Pack, the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, and the King of Pop.
What’s it like to experience this long tradition when you live in an area saturated with music?
A collection of original essays, Neon Riffs and Lounge Acts: Las Vegas Writers on Music presents readers with the blistered fingers, the broken drumsticks, and the late nights and early mornings of life on and off the stage. In this book, you’ll taste the salty sweat caused by 100 burning
bulbs and the sweetness of a backstage bowl of M&Ms (sans the brown ones), an indication of whether the concert promoter actually studied a
band’s complicated contract. And you’ll discover the emotional reality of “living for the music” in the heart of a throbbing mass-entertainment
center.
This is the 13th volume of the annual Las Vegas Writes anthology, in which 13 local authors express what it sounds — and feels — like to embrace the rattle and hum of bright-light city musicality, exploring what it means to enjoy hard rock and soft ballads in a desert-locked entertainment capital where art and commerce clash and struggle to coexist.
Las Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities, published by Huntington Press, with support from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, and part of the Las Vegas Book Festival. Las Vegas Writes anthology is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas. For more information visit: https://www.nevadahumanities.org/las-vegas-writes
About The Editor(s)
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JARRET KEENE is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches American literature and the graphic novel. He has written books—travel guide, rock-band biography, poetry collections—and edited short-fiction anthologies such as Las Vegas Noir and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas. |
