Performing the “Filipino” at the Crossroads: Filipino Bands in Five-Star Hotels Throughout Asia
2005; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.48.2.272
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Asian Culture and Media Studies
ResumoI arrived at the Concorde Hotel at about 8:50 p.m. on a Friday evening. The Concorde Hotel is a high-class business hotel, located on busy Jalan Sultan Ismail in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Across from The Concorde Hotel is Shangri-La Hotel, a five-star establishment belonging to an international chain. Jalan Sultan Ismail and its adjacent streets are home to several of the largest business hotels in the city, such as Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Equatorial Hotel, Mutiara Hotel, Renaissance Hotel, and New World Hotel. These hotels cater to the needs of the business district of Kuala Lumpur and provide accommodation to tourists and business travelers from within the country and abroad. While this area is generally very crowded each evening because of the many nightspots located there, traffic virtually slows to a crawl on Friday and Saturday nights, and people have to wait in line to get into many of the more popular clubs and restaurants. Malaysia’s only Hard Rock Café, the haunt of expatriates, travelers from the west, and the Kuala Lumpur elite, is located at the Concorde Hotel. Here one can savor western food and rock music.
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