论文题目：With reference to a specific case study—a piece of music, a musical event, a review, an essay, a film, a website, etc.—evaluate Greil Marcus’s claim that rock and roll “…dramatize[s] a sense of what it is to be an American; what it means, what it’s worth, and what the stakes of life in America might be.” (Mystery Train, p.4)
论文语种：英文
您的研究方向：媒体与文化（本门课程：America popular music）
是否有数据处理要求：否
您的国家：英国
代写英国essay 您的学校背景：英国兰卡斯特大学，Lancaster University,排名11名。
要求字数：2500
论文用途：本科课程论文 BA Assignment
是否需要盲审（博士或硕士生有这个需要）：否
补充要求和说明：1.论文参考文献格式：havard
2.所需参考文献数量：3个以上
3.论文有具体的题目要求，如下：
Your essay may include an assessment on the relevance of the traditional paradigms of cultural history and cultural studies (such as: high/ low, the masses/class/gender/ race/ nation/ struggle/ resistance…etc.) to understanding rock and roll in American culture.
Your essay must include:
-A general description of the selected case study (with dates and source of the selected material)
-Examples and citations from the assigned readings posted on the AMST361 LUVLE website (other references are optional)
4.我会另外邮件给你们我们学校网站上发布必须用到的READING，从中摘取examples and citations.
Foster 1
BETH FOSTER
AMERICAN STUDIES 361
LAS VEGAS AS A SITE OF MUSICAL TOURISM
The laser-lit, post-industrial, ahistorical, unideological world of Las Vegas, devoted to its own eternal and icon-heavy present, a place of massive stylistic consumption,random cultural intersection, a displaced relationship between cause and effect and the culture of collective narcissism is the epitome of our post-modern world. This study will consider the role of music in contemporary Las Vegas and the visitors whom define and indulge in it.
Las Vegas as a venue for entertainment has gained symbolic meaning for the middle class, for whom participating in the city’s recreational events asserts their social status as elevated from those below them in the social hierarchy. The city is the antithesis of the pre-capitalist societies (many of which it so exuberantly recreates in hotels such as Excalibur, a cartoon of medieval England, the Luxor, the magnified Great Pyramid of Cairo, and Caesar’s Palace’s portrayal of classical Rome, for example) in which the legitimacy of the dominant elite was rooted in a centuries-old value system belief in inherent superiority. Part of the appeal that Las Vegas embodies is rooted in the incentives of the affluent in a capitalist society to legitimise their perceived status beyond the purely economic realm, as a patron of the extravagant concerts and performances in the city. Las Vegas is the largest SMSA (American metropolitan Paradise Lost Vegas area) in the proportion of artists to its population. In a city in which the chief industry is tourism, the large-scale demand for artistic and cultural products,particularly the popular arts of mass culture, demonstrates the desires of the visitors for such entertainment. (For which the ticket costs are no cheaper than for operas or symphonies, suggesting a shift in the realm traditionally associated with defining |
