Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world / edited by William R. Taylor.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: xxvi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0871548437
- 9780871548436
- 974.71
- F128.65.T5 I58 1991
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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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