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

Nasaw

 
9780674356221: Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674356225 ISBN 13: 9780674356221
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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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About the Author

David Nasaw is Professor of History and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674356225
ISBN 13 
9780674356221
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320