No other work does so much to put Times Square into historical perspective both as a geographical space-an actual entity-and as a cultural symbol of central importance. -- Lawrence W. Levine, author of Highbrow-Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
Acknowledgments
Photographs
Introduction
Prologue
Part I: Structural Changes
Introductory Essay
Chapter 1. Developing for Commercial Culture
Chapter 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square
Chapter 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City
Chapter 4. The Discipline of Amusement
Chapter 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order
Part II: Entertainment and Commerce
Introductory Essay
Chapter 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture
Chapter 7. The Syndicate/Shubert War
Chapter 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife
Chapter 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s
Chapter 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley
Chapter 11. Broadway: The Place that Words Built
Part III: Commercial Aesthetics
Introductory Essay
Chapter 12. New York's Gigantic Toy
Chapter 13. Joseph Urban
Part IV: Boundaries of Respectability
Introductory Essay
Chapter 14. Policing of Sexuality
Chapter 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday
Resistance
Chapter 16. Private Parts in Public Places
Afterword
Notes
Contributors
Index
William Taylor has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and the State University of New York-Stony Brook. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, he is the author of In Pursuit of Gotham and Cavalier and Yankee.
A portrait of pre-World War II America in good-natured upheaval, shaking off convention and inventing and reinventing an unpredictable 'commercial culture.'. New York Times This is a rather astonishing effort-the collective brainpower focused on the subject fairly guarantees that every little corner of the square's history will be illuminated for the reader. Los Angeles Times The range of topics is enormous, from the strategies of city planners and real estate entrepreneurs to the tactics of cultural resistance employed by homosexuals and by retailers of commercial popular culture. Journal of American History
A portrait of pre-World War II America in good-natured upheaval, shaking off convention and inventing and reinventing an unpredictable 'commercial culture.'. New York Times This is a rather astonishing effort-the collective brainpower focused on the subject fairly guarantees that every little corner of the square's history will be illuminated for the reader. Los Angeles Times The range of topics is enormous, from the strategies of city planners and real estate entrepreneurs to the tactics of cultural resistance employed by homosexuals and by retailers of commercial popular culture. Journal of American History
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