Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world /
Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world /
edited by William R. Taylor.
- xxvi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Based on a series of six conferences held during 1988-89, sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-424) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue - Times Square: Secularization and Sacralization -- Structural Changes -- Introductory Essay -- Developing for Commercial Culture -- Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square -- Urban Tourism and the Commercial City -- The Discipline of Amusement -- Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order -- Entertainment and Commerce -- Introductory Essay -- Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture -- The Syndicate/Shubert War -- Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife -- The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s -- Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley -- Broadway: The Place that Words Built -- Commercial Aesthetics -- Introductory Essay -- New York's Gigantic Toy -- Joseph Urban -- Boundaries of Respectability -- Introductory Essay -- Policing of Sexuality -- The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance -- Private Parts in Public Places -- Afterword - Reinventing Times Square: 1990 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. III. 12. 13. IV. 14. 15. 16.
0871548437 9780871548436
91017990
Popular culture--History--New York (State)--New York
Times Square (New York, N.Y.)--History
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951
F128.65.T5 / I58 1991
974.71
Based on a series of six conferences held during 1988-89, sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-424) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue - Times Square: Secularization and Sacralization -- Structural Changes -- Introductory Essay -- Developing for Commercial Culture -- Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square -- Urban Tourism and the Commercial City -- The Discipline of Amusement -- Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order -- Entertainment and Commerce -- Introductory Essay -- Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture -- The Syndicate/Shubert War -- Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife -- The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s -- Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley -- Broadway: The Place that Words Built -- Commercial Aesthetics -- Introductory Essay -- New York's Gigantic Toy -- Joseph Urban -- Boundaries of Respectability -- Introductory Essay -- Policing of Sexuality -- The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance -- Private Parts in Public Places -- Afterword - Reinventing Times Square: 1990 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. III. 12. 13. IV. 14. 15. 16.
0871548437 9780871548436
91017990
Popular culture--History--New York (State)--New York
Times Square (New York, N.Y.)--History
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951
F128.65.T5 / I58 1991
974.71