Bøker av David (University of Pennsylvania) Grazian

Takes you on a tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene that reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Including confessional stories, this book is an expose of the smoke and mirrors employed in the city at night.

Takes us inside the world of urban blues clubs to uncover how iconic - yet empty - images of the blues are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences. Drawing on many nights in dozens of blues clubs throughout Chicago, the author shows how this quest for authenticity transformed the very shape of the blues experience.