The New York Concert Saloon
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The New York Concert Saloon
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Author : Brooks McNamara
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-28
The New York Concert Saloon written by Brooks McNamara and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-28 with Drama categories.
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Broadway Below The Sidewalk
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Author : William Lawrence Slout
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Broadway Below The Sidewalk written by William Lawrence Slout and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The Broadway of the 1860s in New York City began at Bowling Green at the southern tip of Manhattan, and extended all the way to Tarrytown. During this period concert saloons entertained a sizeable portion of the Broadway night life. Variety entertainments were performed in converted theatres amid a barroom atmosphere, where patrons were attended by "pretty waiter girls." Taken from the pages of the New York Clipper, these contemporaneous pieces describe a world of entertainment long forgotten. Complete with index and notes.
The Women Of New York Or Social Life In The Great City
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Author : George Ellington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The Women Of New York Or Social Life In The Great City written by George Ellington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with New York (N.Y.) categories.
Gotham
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Author : Edwin G. Burrows
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-19
Gotham written by Edwin G. Burrows and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-19 with History categories.
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.
America Under The Influence
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Author : Chloë Rae Edmonson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-04
America Under The Influence written by Chloë Rae Edmonson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-04 with Performing Arts categories.
In this book, Chloë Rae Edmonson analyzes performance sites from throughout U.S. history to reveal the material ways that drinking culture is performative, immersive performance is intoxicating, and how alcohol shapes performance space and practice. Combining archival research with firsthand accounts of immersive spaces, this study demonstrates how social drinking and performance in themed spaces often collude to reify power dynamics latent to mainstream American culture, such as patriarchal values, racial and wealth inequality, and labor exploitation. Yet there are also examples of how performers, designers, and consumers creatively subvert such dominant attitudes in pursuit of their own creative expression and fulfillment. Part I examines historic bars and clubs that are immersive by design, while Part II explores immersive theatre productions from the 1980s to today. At the heart of all these American examples, of course, is alcohol, its associated cultures of immersive consumption, and the wide range of influence it can have on the bodies and minds of performers and participants. In addition to its pop cultural appeal, this study will be relevant to scholars and university students interested in immersive theatre and performance, drinking culture, and American studies.
A Pickpocket S Tale The Underworld Of Nineteenth Century New York
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Author : Timothy J. Gilfoyle
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-02-07
A Pickpocket S Tale The Underworld Of Nineteenth Century New York written by Timothy J. Gilfoyle and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's Row In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year. Bad nights left him with more than a dozen scars and over a decade in prisons from the Tombs and Sing Sing to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he reunited with another inmate, his father. The child of Irish and Chinese immigrants, Appo grew up in the notorious Five Points and Chinatown neighborhoods. He rose as an exemplar of the "good fellow," a criminal who relied on wile, who followed a code of loyalty even in his world of deception. Here is the underworld of the New York that gave us Edith Wharton, Boss Tweed, Central Park, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
On The Town In New York
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Author : Michael Batterberry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1998-09-23
On The Town In New York written by Michael Batterberry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-23 with History categories.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In The Watches Of The Night
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Author : Peter C. Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-12-15
In The Watches Of The Night written by Peter C. Baldwin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with History categories.
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors—scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike—in the nocturnal city. Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.
Journal Of The American Temperance Union And The New York Prohibitionist
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
Journal Of The American Temperance Union And The New York Prohibitionist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Temperance categories.
The Women Of New York Or The Under World Of The Great City
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Author : George Ellington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Women Of New York Or The Under World Of The Great City written by George Ellington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with New York (N.Y.) categories.