Title & Author:

Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world / edited by William R. Taylor.

Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1991.

Description:

xxvi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Based on a series of six conferences held during 1988-89, sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-424) and index.
Developing for commercial culture / David C. Hammack -- Uptown real estate and the creation of Times Square / Betsy Blackmar -- Urban tourism and the commercial city / Neil Harris -- The discipline of amusement / Richard Wightman Fox -- Brokers and the new corporate, industrial order / William Leach -- Vaudeville and the transformation of popular culture / Robert W. Snyder -- The Syndicate/Shubert war / Peter A. Davis -- Impresarios of Broadway nightlife / Lewis Erenberg -- The entertainment district at the end of the 1930s / Brooks McNamara -- Irving Berlin : troubadour of Tin Pan Alley / Philip Furia -- Broadway : the place that words built / William R. Taylor -- New York's gigantic toy / William Wood Register, Jr. -- Joseph Urban / Gregory F. Gilmartin -- Policing of sexuality / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The policed : gay men's strategies of everyday resistance / George Chauncey, Jr. -- Private parts in public plaes / Laurence Senelick.
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Summary:

Developing for commercial culture / David C. Hammack -- Uptown real estate and the creation of Times Square / Betsy Blackmar -- Urban tourism and the commercial city / Neil Harris -- The discipline of amusement / Richard Wightman Fox -- Brokers and the new corporate, industrial order / William Leach -- Vaudeville and the transformation of popular culture / Robert W. Snyder -- The Syndicate/Shubert war / Peter A. Davis -- Impresarios of Broadway nightlife / Lewis Erenberg -- The entertainment district at the end of the 1930s / Brooks McNamara -- Irving Berlin : troubadour of Tin Pan Alley / Philip Furia -- Broadway : the place that words built / William R. Taylor -- New York's gigantic toy / William Wood Register, Jr. -- Joseph Urban / Gregory F. Gilmartin -- Policing of sexuality / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The policed : gay men's strategies of everyday resistance / George Chauncey, Jr. -- Private parts in public plaes / Laurence Senelick.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0871548437
9780871548436

Subject:

Popular culture New York (State) New York History.
Culture populaire - New York (État) - New York - Histoire.
Culture populaire - New York (État) - Times Square (New-York) - Histoire.
Culture populaire New York (État) Times Square (New-York) Histoire.
Culture populaire New York (État) New York Histoire.
Popular culture
Geschichte
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) History 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) - Histoire - 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) - Histoire - 1898-1951.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) - Histoire.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire 1865-1898.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire 1898-1951.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Times Square
Times Square
New York (N.Y.) Times Square.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
proceedings (reports)
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Taylor, William R. (William Robert), 1922-2014.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89052
Call No.: ID:93-B2472
Status: Available