Going Out
Going Out

Author: David Nasaw

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999-04-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0674417593

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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.

Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920
Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920

Author: Benjamin McArthur

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780877457107

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The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the boundaries of respectable society to being significant figures in the social landscape. As the only book that provides an overview of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theatre, Actors and American Culture is also the only study of the legitimate stage that overtly attempts to connect actors and their work to the wider aspects of American life.