Going Out - The Rise & Fall of Public Amusements

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-674-35622-1
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nasaw, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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