On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Name: On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
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ISBN: 9780226305677

ISBN-10: 0226305678

ISBN-13: 9780226305677

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Grazian, David Grazian

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It's nighttime in the city and everybody's working a hustle. Winking bartenders and smiling waitresses flirt their way to bigger tips. Hostesses and bouncers hit up the crowd of would-be customers for bribes. And on the other side of the velvet rope, single men and women are on a perpetual hunt to score--or at least pick up a phone number. Every night of the week they all play the same game, relentlessly competing for money, sex, self-esteem, and status. David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.87" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Paper Trails Counterfeit Detectors Displacements Currency of Art Games and Play



Marketing Providence "Holy Shit!" Market Makers Invisible Hand



Figuring Capital Artistic Absolute Economic Absolute Art of Finance



Money Matters Losing Weight Going Private



Specters of Capital Networking the Economy Creationex Nihilo Collateral Damage



Yahoo Nation From Las Vegas to Times Square Finance-Entertainment Complex Com Games



Difference Engines From Wall Street to Las Vegas Balancing the Books Random Walks



In-Securities Unbalancing the Books Complexity and Contradictions in Markets



Rustling Religion Return of the Repressed Three Types of Theology of Culture New Realities


Notes


Index