Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements - Brossura

Nasaw

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ISBN 10: 0674356225 ISBN 13: 9780674356221

Casa editrice: Harvard University Press, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements

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• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674356225
• ISBN 13: 9780674356221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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