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"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel."
- Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
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| | Going Out:
The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements
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| | by David Nasaw
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ZIN Product Number: 10179128
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674356225
Release Date: Jan 6, 2000
| |  | | | In Brief
The author "chronicles the rise of amusement parks, vaudeville, world's fairs, baseball games, movie houses, and other public amusements in the late19th and early 20th centuries. The origin of each amusement is . . . {described, including discussion} of how ethnic and class barriers were affected and how blacks {Nasaw argues}, were consistently excluded." (Libr J) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
There was a time not very long ago when "going out" was only for the rich and the reckless. At the turn of the century, "going out" became part of everyday life as vaudeville halls, photograph parlors, penny arcades, nickelodeons, nightclubs, dance halls, world's fair midways, amusement parks, ballparks, and movie palaces opened their doors to the people of the city. 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 on stage. Going Out chronicles the twentieth-century entertainment revolution that changed forever the ways we live, work, and play. In a matter of decades, a new public world of amusements was created where ethnic, class, and neighborhood differences were subordinated to the common pursuit of a good time. Clerks and bankers, sales girls and society ladies "turkey trotted" to ragtime in nightclubs and dance halls; "shot the chute" and clutched one another in "barrels of love"; visited "Darkest Africa" on the world's fair midways; and sat together in the dark watching pictures move on a screen. In Going Out, we meet the colorful characters who invented show business: Thomas Alva Edison, who was astonished when his phonograph made money playing music (he had designed it to take business dictation); Benjamin Franklin Keith, the circus grifter who opened a dime museum in Boston in the 1880s and within a decade owned the world's largest vaudeville theater circuit; Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew, the New York furriers who made millions in the early picture-show business; and the dozens of small-time show businessmen who rode the rails with their "shows" in their trunks. And we hear the stories of the early black performers and their struggles to maintain their dignity and livelihood while audiences demanded their public humiliation. Going Out is a history of twentieth-century show business and o
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Focusing on the 1800s through the First World War, Nasaw looks at the institutions of vaudeville, baseball, amusement parks, dance halls, and motion pictures, whose rise marked an alternative to home-based entertainments and male-only saloons
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History, United States, Amusements, Leisure, Sociology, Sociology Of Leisure, Social Science, Sociology - Urban, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor, Anthropology - Cultural, Discrimination & Racism, Popular Culture - General
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