{"id":772603,"date":"2022-10-18T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T22:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?post_type=product&p=772603"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:51:47","slug":"neon-riffs-and-lounge-acts","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/neon-riffs-and-lounge-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon Riffs and Lounge Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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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
\nmusic was made famous by the Rat Pack, the King of Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll, and the King of Pop.<\/p>\n

What’s it like to experience this long tradition when you live in an area saturated with music?<\/p>\n

A collection of original essays, Neon Riffs and Lounge Acts: Las <\/em>Vegas Writers on Music<\/em> 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\u2019ll taste the salty sweat caused by 100 burning
\nbulbs and the sweetness of a backstage bowl of M&Ms (sans the brown ones), an indication of whether the concert promoter actually studied a
\nband\u2019s complicated contract. And you\u2019ll discover the emotional reality of \u201cliving for the music\u201d in the heart of a throbbing mass-entertainment
\ncenter.<\/p>\n

This is the 13th volume of the annual Las Vegas Writes anthology, in which 13 local authors express what it sounds \u2014 and feels \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Writes is a program of Nevada Humanities, published by Huntington Press, with support from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District,\u00a0and part of the Las Vegas Book Festival. Las Vegas Writes anthology\u00a0is an annual collection of writings by local authors focused on a theme connected to Las Vegas.\u00a0 For more information visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.nevadahumanities.org\/las-vegas-writes<\/a><\/p>\n

About The Editor(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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JARRET KEENE<\/b> 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\u2014travel guide, rock-band biography, poetry collections\u2014and edited short-fiction anthologies such as Las Vegas Noir<\/i> and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this 13th edition of the annual Las Vegas Writes anthology, 13 local writers put “neon riffs and lounge acts” into prose, expressing the experiences of everything from garage bands to harpists, impresarios to showroom players, death metal to Hungarian folk songs \u2014 with each story cranked up to 11 on the volume meter.\u00a0 \u00a0(Price includes shipping to U.S. addresses only.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":772604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_cat":[539],"product_tag":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/772603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=772603"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=772603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}