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... Documentary photographs in Las Vegas reveal the many visual tricks used to purposely reveal everything, even the copies of foreign architecture, to be fake. With multiple versions of costumed characters parading the streets, wax figures posing with tourists, advertisements juxtaposed with iconic...

... phenomena: the slave and Chinese populations; festivities such as Carnival, bullfights, and the Amancaes Parade; and the occupation of Lima and the destruction caused by the war with Chile. Writers recognized that Lima was changing and a nostalgia for the supposedly golden era of colonial rule emerged...

... spectacles in Cairo together: the (almost) simultaneous opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida in the Khedivial Opera House in 1871, and a restaging of Aida with the operatic Parade of the Mummies in 2021, coincident with the running aground of a giant container ship...

... Struggles over the future of Detroit were indelibly shaped by pervasive mythmaking that manifested in cultural events like parades, photographic representation, ruin tourism, and general discourse. If anti-Black dystopian images of the city as an urban jungle and place to fear dominated...

... subjects as diverse as Universal Negro Improvement Association leader Marcus Garvey on parade in Harlem and made a life-size installation of dancers cavorting at the Savoy Ballroom as a part of a continuous body of work that celebrated a tangible image world that was lived and experienced, both firsthand...

...!)” and Yaz’s “Situation.” The paradigm shift toward electronic dub gathered pace when Kiss FM DJ Shep Pettibone started to mix tracks such as Sinnamon’s “Thanks to You.” Mark Kamins joined the dub parade after he started to date Madonna and mixed her first single, “Everybody.” The soundscape also hummed...

... Chapter Seven: The Whiteness of the Wail. The white wail was a legacy, dating back to the pot-banging, tub-thumping parades that whites becoming a working class used as they “made the night hideous” registering disapproval. Voices are socially regulated, often in racially defined ways, afforded...

... the Avenue A spot on 10 December. The opening-night party blended Western movies, drag queen performances, and DJ-ing in the back room. Demand soon surpassed all expectations and by the spring the spot matched Danceteria’s seven-nights-a-week parade. As it became clear that Pyramid was part of a broader East...

.... Demand soon surpassed all expectations and by the spring the spot matched Danceteria’s seven-nights-a-week parade. As it became clear that Pyramid was part of a broader East Village reaction against West Village gay culture, Bradley and Mace hired the Mudd Club’s Ivan Baker as their principal DJ. Over...

... This chapter begins by describing the celebrations that followed the announcement of the end of slavery in Brazil, on May 13, 1888. The explosions of joy as well as the parades of recently freed slaves and abolitionists through the streets of the cities and towns are examined for their various...

... had painted culturally resonant subjects as diverse as Universal Negro Improvement Association leader Marcus Garvey on parade in Harlem and made a life-size installation of dancers cavorting at the Savoy Ballroom as a part of a continuous body of work that celebrated a tangible image world...