Author: Kathy Peiss
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1439905533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.
Author: Frederic William Sawyer
Publisher:
Published: 1847
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kathy Peiss
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0877225001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses. Kathy Peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, Coney Island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between 1880 and 1920 as expressed in leisure activities. By examining the rituals and styles they adopted and placing that culture in the larger context of urban working-class life, she offers us a complex picture of the dynamics shaping a working woman's experience and consciousness at the turn-of-the-century. Not only does her analysis lead us to new insights into working-class culture, changing social relations between single men and women, and urban courtship, but it also gives us a fuller understanding of the cultural transformations that gave rise to the commercialization of leisure. The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of "heterosocial companionship" as a dominant ideology of gender, affirming mixed-sex patterns of social interaction, in contrast to the nineteenth century's segregated spheres. Cheap Amusements argues that a crucial part of the "reorientation of American culture" originated from below, specifically in the subculture of working women to be found in urban dance halls and amusement resorts.
Author: David Nasaw
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999-04-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0674417593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Montréal (Québec). Finance Department
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1070
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mr Kevin Williams
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-06-28
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1472426959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Digital Out of Home Entertainment is transforming the customer experience in shops, cinemas, museums; almost any environment where consumers are congregating. This book provides a 'state of play' exploration of the successes, the emerging new applications and the strategies that inform them--and is an essential guide for entertainment executives as well as those involved in retailing, the hotel industry, mobile communications, museums and heritage.