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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements Paperback – Illustrated, April 15, 1999

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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.

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    Harvard University Press
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    April 15, 1999
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  6. ISBN-10
    0674356225
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0674356221
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“No other book brings together so much material about so many different urban entertainment forms―and connects their history with a few simple and powerful overarching themes.”―Warren Goldstein, The Nation

“David Nasaw’s fine history of public amusements in urban America is such a welcome contribution to contemporary cultural debate… Nasaw unearths fascinating details about everything from the early history of the movies to pre–World War I dance crazes; and he raises fundamental questions about the web of connections joining commercial play, public space and cultural cohesion.”―Jackson Lears, New York Times Book Review

“An effervescent social history.”―The New Yorker

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David Nasaw's fine history of public amusements in urban America is such a welcome contribution to contemporary cultural debate ... Nasaw unearths fascinating details about everything from the early history of the movies to pre-World War I dance crazes; and he raises fundamental questions about the web of connections joining commercial play, public space and cultural cohesion.-Jackson Lears, New York Times Book Review

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; Illustrated edition (April 15, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674356225
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674356221
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.8 x 9.21 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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DANIEL M HARRISON
2.0 out of 5 stars GOING NOWHERE
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2001
I agree with the sentiments of the above reviewer, yet I wonder how such negative a review could elicit so many "stars" of evaluation. I tried to teach Nasaw's book in the context of a college course on sports and leisure, with moderate success. Aside from the discussion about white's perceptions of African Americans (a topic which, as the previous reviewer said are not themselves brought into the picture), there is little to no discussion of historical context or the social structure of the urban environments that produced these "public amusements." It seems that Nasaw's book is really part of a larger project, as there is much that needs to be filled in -- especially any detailed discussion of public amusements between 1910 and WWII and beyond. This book would be useful to the specialist of leisure of entertainment in that it is very well documented and covers a very wide territory of leisure practices. But too often the reader is left thinking "So what?" and Nasaw does little in the way of arguing WHY this particular book was written -- why he wrote it in this particular way. All in all, a rather boring and tedious book, though one which is not without its interesting historical facts.
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