Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville : Excavating Manhattan?s Lost Places of Leisure.
Winner of the Publication Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America. Named to Pop Matters list of the Best Books of 2009 (Non-fiction). From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York Ci...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Winner of the Publication Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America. Named to Pop Matters list of the Best Books of 2009 (Non-fiction). From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City isn't called ""the city that never sleeps"" for nothing. Both native New Yorkers and tourists have played hard in Gotham for centuries, lindy hopping in 1930s Harlem, voguing in 1980s Chelsea, and refueling at all-night diners and bars. The slim island at the mouth of the Hudson River is packed w. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780814728543 0814728545 |