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The Birth Of An Arts Scene, William Goldberg
The Birth Of An Arts Scene, William Goldberg
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Scenes, created and defined by particular social settings offer a central activity that help to focus community interaction, a sense of purpose and of being in the right place. This dissertation is about the grassroots development of an art scene in the most unlikely of places – Las Vegas, a city sociologists have often described as having an isolating character with an outward focus on tourism, a weak civic culture and social fragmentation, resulting in an individually-focused and socially isolated population.
Using the multiple techniques of ethnographic research, this work comes out of: (1) conversations with early visionaries, (2) participant …