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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements

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Availability:In StockContributor:David NasawPublish date:1999-04-15Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674356221ISBN-10:674356225UPC:9780674356221Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Urban, AmericanSize:9.18 x 6.11 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SC8VSH8ZF2

David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls.

The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674356221ISBN-10:674356225UPC:9780674356221Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Urban, AmericanSize:9.18 x 6.11 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SC8VSH8ZF2
Nasaw, David: - David Nasaw is Professor of History and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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