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Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world / edited by William R. Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xxvi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0871548437
  • 9780871548436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.71
LOC classification:
  • F128.65.T5 I58 1991
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue - Times Square: Secularization and Sacralization -- I. Structural Changes -- Introductory Essay -- 1. Developing for Commercial Culture -- 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square -- 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City -- 4. The Discipline of Amusement -- 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order -- II. Entertainment and Commerce -- Introductory Essay -- 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture -- 7. The Syndicate/Shubert War -- 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife -- 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s -- 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley -- 11. Broadway: The Place that Words Built -- III. Commercial Aesthetics -- Introductory Essay -- 12. New York's Gigantic Toy -- 13. Joseph Urban -- IV. Boundaries of Respectability -- Introductory Essay -- 14. Policing of Sexuality -- 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance -- 16. Private Parts in Public Places -- Afterword - Reinventing Times Square: 1990 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 974.71 INV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A176414B

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 -- I. Structural Changes -- Introductory Essay -- 1. Developing for Commercial Culture -- 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square -- 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City -- 4. The Discipline of Amusement -- 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order -- II. Entertainment and Commerce -- Introductory Essay -- 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture -- 7. The Syndicate/Shubert War -- 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife -- 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s -- 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley -- 11. Broadway: The Place that Words Built -- III. Commercial Aesthetics -- Introductory Essay -- 12. New York's Gigantic Toy -- 13. Joseph Urban -- IV. Boundaries of Respectability -- Introductory Essay -- 14. Policing of Sexuality -- 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance -- 16. Private Parts in Public Places -- Afterword - Reinventing Times Square: 1990 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

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