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UNINA9910460946803321 |
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Williams Terry M (Terry Moses), <1948-> |
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The con men : hustling in New York City / / Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Crime - New York (State) - New York |
Criminals - New York (State) - New York |
Police - New York (State) - New York |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man -- Two. City Cons and Hustles -- Three. The Con Crew -- Four. The Con Game as Street Theater -- Five. Petty Street Hustles -- Six. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap -- Seven. The Numbers Game -- Eight. New York Tenant Hustles -- Nine. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game -- Ten. NYPD and the Finest Cons -- Eleven. Wall Street Cons -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton, two prominent sociologists and ethnographers, spent years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether in back alleys and side streets or in police precincts and Wall Street boiler rooms. Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection, and sheer charm to convince |
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others to do what they want. Williams and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in its methods to exact bounty from unsuspecting tourists and ordinary New Yorkers alike. Through their sophisticated exploration of the personal experiences and influences that create a successful hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and psychological depth. Their work also offers a new take on structure and opportunity, showing how the city's unique urban and social architecture lends itself to the perfect con. |
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UNINA9910373943803321 |
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Autore |
Martin Tenley |
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Transnational Flamenco : Exchange and the Individual in British and Spanish Flamenco Culture / / by Tenley Martin |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (XIV, 296 p. 20 illus., 19 illus. in color.) |
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Leisure Studies in a Global Era, , 2946-3181 |
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Sports - Sociological aspects |
Culture |
Dance |
Music |
Sport Sociology |
Sociology of Culture |
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1. Introduction -- 2. An Overview of Flamenco and Globalisation -- 3. Sevilla: Local Scenes and Ex-Pat Communities -- 4. Madrid: The Consummate Professional Scene -- 5. Flamenca Britannica: One Foot in Andalucía -- 6. Connected by the Compás: An Analysis of Cultural Transmission between Spain and the UK. |
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This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene. Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural transmission. This concept, referred to as 'cosmopolitan human hubs', builds on Kiwan and Meinhof's 'hubs' theory of network migration to move cultural migration and globalisation studies forwards. Martin outlines a post-globalisation flamenco culture through analysis of ethnographic research carried out in the UK, Sevilla and Madrid. Insight into these glocal scenes characterises flamenco as a historically globalized art complex,represented in various hubs around the world. This alternative approach to music migration and globalisation studies will be of interest to students and scholars across leisure studies, musicology, sociology and anthropology. . |
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