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Focusing on one quintessential urban space, Times Square, this study of American city culture ranges in time from 1905 to the present. It examines Times Square as an economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment centre, advertizing medium, architectural experiment, and erotic underworld. As well as Times Square, the essays cover other examples of urban history and American social history, showing in the process how Times Square reflected America as it became an urban consumer culture.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Photographs Introduction Prologue Part I: Structural Changes Introductory Essay Chapter 1. Developing for Commercial Culture Chapter 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square Chapter 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City Chapter 4. The Discipline of Amusement Chapter 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order Part II: Entertainment and Commerce Introductory Essay Chapter 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture Chapter 7. The Syndicate/Shubert War Chapter 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife Chapter 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s Chapter 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley Chapter 11. Broadway: The Place that Words Built Part III: Commercial Aesthetics Introductory Essay Chapter 12. New York's Gigantic Toy Chapter 13. Joseph Urban Part IV: Boundaries of Respectability Introductory Essay Chapter 14. Policing of Sexuality Chapter 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance Chapter 16. Private Parts in Public Places Afterword Notes Contributors Index

About the Author :
William Taylor has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and the State University of New York-Stony Brook. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, he is the author of In Pursuit of Gotham and Cavalier and Yankee.

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A portrait of pre-World War II America in good-natured upheaval, shaking off convention and inventing and reinventing an unpredictable 'commercial culture.'. New York Times This is a rather astonishing effort-the collective brainpower focused on the subject fairly guarantees that every little corner of the square's history will be illuminated for the reader. Los Angeles Times The range of topics is enormous, from the strategies of city planners and real estate entrepreneurs to the tactics of cultural resistance employed by homosexuals and by retailers of commercial popular culture. Journal of American History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801853371
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 496
  • Sub Title: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801853370
  • Publisher Date: 27 May 1996
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 907 gr


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