Going Out: The Rise And Fall Of Public Amusements - Softcover

Nasaw, David

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9780465026548: Going Out: The Rise And Fall Of Public Amusements

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ISBN 10: 0465026540 ISBN 13: 9780465026548

Publisher: Basic Books, 1994

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Chronicles public amusement from when it was strictly for the wealthy, to the rise of vaudeville halls, phonograph parlors, and penny arcades--which brought the privilege to the working class--to the present, discussing barriers of class, ethnicity, and race

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An evocative account of the rise and fall of urban mass amusements. Nasaw argues that at the turn of the century, as "going out" became a part of everyday life in American cities, a middle-class cosmopolitan culture emerged and class, ethnic, and religious barriers dissolved.

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David Nasaw's fine history of public amusements in urban America is such a welcome contribution to contemporary cultural debate ... Nasaw unearths fascinating details about everything from the early history of the movies to pre-World War I dance crazes; and he raises fundamental questions about the web of connections joining commercial play, public space and cultural cohesion.-Jackson Lears, New York Times Book Review

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