TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,William R.
TI  - Inventing Times Square: commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world 
SN  - 0871548437
AV  - F128.65.T5 I58 1991
U1  - 974.71 
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Russell Sage Foundation
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - Times Square (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - 1898-1951
N1  - 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
ER  -