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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Nightclub"”.
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Developing a theory of nightclub location choice
… of the factors that influence where nightclubs locate within a city. Nightclubs, like other social spaces, provide important social and economic benefits in the urban environment. As amenities, they attract labor to cities, and as sites of social exchange, they provide space in which …
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Documenting the Use of Appearances Among the DJ and Nightclub Patrons
… the literature on fabulous appearances: the gay nightclub patron and the club DJ. This study used a large Midwestern gay nightclub as the field setting. Fabulousness involves the way patrons costume themselves in order to communicate status within the setting. This study revealed that …
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Teaching an old strip new tricks : a renovation proposal for Boston's nightclub district
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1984.
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The fantasy of the New York nightclub : a study of an urban public space
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
… like <em>RuPaul’s Drag Race</em> and in gay nightclubs across the country. In short, it became <em>the </em>queer form of entertainment. But in the 1930s, with such developing notions of gender and sexuality, it was not as easy as saying that it was a gay art form. Rather, as heterosexuality …
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Killin' it on Corporate Ground: The Cultural Politics of Street Performance in a Gentrified Space
… the bustling crowds to the nearest restaurant or nightclub. These buskers represent various subcultures within a gentrified entertainment district of urban renewal that caters to the middle class. This ethnographic study aims to examine the cultural politics of busker performances in a highly …
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"Where East Texas dances" : the Cooper Club of Henderson, Rusk County, and popular dance bands, 1932-1942.
… one-night stands in small towns. Locally, the nightclub existed during the great East Texas oil boom. Under the management of owner Hugh Cooper, the Cooper Club became a staple for music lovers in East Texas who appreciated its elegant atmosphere and high caliber of entertainment. Local, …
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The Wall-Mill : the design of a flexible machine for the in-situ architectural machining of surfaces
… Apartment in Paris, France and in the Frankfurt Nightclub in Frankfurt, Germany (designed by Mark Goulthorpe). These 3-D surfaces were created by first constructing molds which is an extremely time-consuming and inefficient process. It is also difficult to transport a large mold from the machine …
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The Saxophone as a Solo Instument in Gospel Music: The Musical Contributions of Dr. Vernard Johnson
… intends to show how Johnson left a Kansas City nightclub and brought the signature instrument of jazz into the sacred sanctuary of the church. Through interviews, testimonies, periodicals, concert reviews, solo recordings, and the author’s experience as a Church of God in Christ minister, this …
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Clubs of Night: An artistic response into spaces of collective association and coping in a patriarchal time
… in the heterotopian2 time-space of urban nightclub culture in the context of the current patriarchal time. 3 My aim is to examine the experiences of safety and unsafety within these particular spaces from an individual and socio-political perspective and discuss how contemporary artists …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… novels depicting underground jazz and nightclub culture, memoirs and autobiographical fiction that promise an insider's view of addiction and its impact on everyday life, and novels of the 1980s that illumine potent connections between contemporary drug use and capitalist consumerism. …
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Acute Neuropathological Alterations after Smoke Inhalation Injury, with and without Skin Burn
… (CNS). Tragic events, such as those of the nightclub fire in Brazil in 2013, suggest that neurological complications occur following smoke inhalation injury, with the most commonly reported symptoms being a persistent headache, memory loss, and paresthesia. Additionally, one case report …
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Zeki Müren, a prince from outer space : reading Turkey's gender-bending pop legend as a transmedia star
… across music (radio and records), cinema, gazino nightclub performances, and television, during his lifetime, and deconstructed and appropriated by fans, artists, musicians, and media makers after his death. Based on their ideological and representational affordances, these media together create a …
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All Things Weird and Wonderful: A Creative Exploration of Disability Representation
… Genevieve witnesses a supernatural attack at a nightclub near campus, she turns to Patrick for help. Together they team up to try and solve the supernatural mysteries happening on and around their university campus.</p> <p><em>All Things Weird and Wonderful</em> explores what it is like to be …
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In times of “crisis”: Puerto Rican activism, gender, and belonging in Orlando
… crisis in Puerto Rico, the shooting at Pulse nightclub, the 2016 U.S. elections, and Hurricane Maria. Based on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018, this dissertation asks and answers the following questions: What does the concept of crisis obscure and what …
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Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile
… Chileans, including cabaret artists and nightclub owners. My focus on nonreproductive sexuality tells a new story of women in Latin America, of queerness in Latin America, and of Chilean politics and civil rights. It also reveals race, sex, and gender constructions as transnational …
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Inflammatory and Conciliatory Rhetoric in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events
… terrorist cell's suicide bombing of a nightclub in Tel Aviv in 2005. Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount in 2000 led to the second intifada, the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the conflict's recent history. However, what followed the suicide attack in Tel Aviv in 2005 were several …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… de Mayo, Plaza Congreso, La Republica Cromanon nightclub, Avellaneda Train Station and El Olimpo, a former detention centre from the military dictatorship.
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Mike Nichols. Elaine May, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen's "New Cabaret": underground Jewish humor and the evolution of the new Hollywood aesthetic
… from the cultural disruption caused by Jewish nightclub comedians and their projection of anti-Semitism and Nazi spectacle onto American culture in order to critique it. This is demonstrated by examining four primary films: Mike Nichols’s The Graduate (1967), Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid …
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Beyond the Mirror: Towards a feminised (cartographic) process of spatiality in moving-image & installation based art
… structures the thesis, (f)low visibility, in a nightclub. Feminist (installation and video) practitioners’, Martha Rosler, Louise Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum and Pipilotti Rist, approaches to representing the feminine are also investigated. The preparatory designs attempt to subvert the potential for …
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