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Ten Cents a Dance

Author : fred berri
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Release Date : 2016-09-02
ISBN 10 : 9781506902838
Pages : 252 pages
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Download Ten Cents a Dance book PDF by fred berri and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicide detective, Johnny Vero, hunts a serial killer who targets dance hall women who charge a fee of ten cents for a 3 minute spin on the dance floor. They are murdered in the Budapest Hotel in certain room numbers which have biblical meanings as to why the killer chooses these rooms. Detective Vero travels to France and works with Interpol to capture the killer.

Ten Cents a Dance

Author : Christine Fletcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-07-15
ISBN 10 : 1599905000
Pages : 368 pages
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Rating : 4.9/5 (95 users download)

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Download Ten Cents a Dance book PDF by Christine Fletcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her mother ill, it's up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago's poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of "fishing": working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dance halls, jazz, and the mob, Ruby gradually realizes that the only one who can save her is herself. A mesmerizing look into a little known world and era.

The City in Slang

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-02-23
ISBN 10 : 0195357760
Pages : 572 pages
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Download The City in Slang book PDF by Irving Lewis Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

Reginald Marsh's New York

Author : Marilyn Cohen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1983-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0486245942
Pages : 115 pages
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Download Reginald Marsh's New York book PDF by Marilyn Cohen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsh New York illustrations (including 4 in full color on covers): Coney Island, 14th St., subways, crowds, more.

Lorenz Hart

Author : Frederick Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1995-11-02
ISBN 10 : 019535611X
Pages : 416 pages
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Download Lorenz Hart book PDF by Frederick Nolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenz Hart singlehandedly changed the craft of lyric writing. When Larry Hart first met Dick Rodgers in 1919, the commercial song lyric consisted of tired cliches and cloying Victorian sentimentality. Hart changed all that, always avoiding the obvious, aiming for the unexpected phrase that would twang the nerve or touch the heart. Endowed with both a buoyant wit and a tender, almost raw sincerity, Hart brought a poetic complexity to his art, capturing the everyday way people talk and weaving it into his lyrics. Songs had never been written like that before, and afterwards it seemed impossible that songs would ever be written any other way. Lorenz Hart: A Poet on Broadway presents the public triumphs of a true genius of the American musical theatre, and the personal tragedies of a man his friend the singer Mabel Mercer described as "the saddest man I ever knew." Author Frederick Nolan began researching this definitive biography in 1968, tracking down and interviewing Hart's friends and collaborators one by one, including a remarkable conversation with Richard Rodgers himself. A veritable who's who of Broadway's golden age, including Joshua Logan, Gene Kelly, George Abbott and many more, recall their uncensored and often hilarious, sometimes poignant memories of the cigar-chomping wordsmith who composed some of the best lyrics ever concocted for the Broadway stage, but who remained forever lost and lonely in the crowds of hangers-on he attracted. A portrait of Hart emerges as a Renaissance and endearing bon vivant conflicted by his homosexuality and ultimately torn apart by alcoholism. Nolan skillfully pulls together the chaotic details of Hart's remarkable life, beginning with his bohemian upbringing in turn of the century Harlem. Here are his first ventures into show business, and the 24-year-old Hart's first meeting with the 16-year-old Richard Rodgers. "Neither of us mentioned it," Rodgers later recalled, "but we evidently knew we would work together, and I left Hart's house having acquired in one afternoon a career, a best friend, and a source of permanent irritation." Nolan captures it all: the team's early setbacks, the spectacular hour long standing ovation for their hit song, "Manhattan," the Hollywood years (which inspired Hart to utter the undying line, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you"), and the unforgettable string of hit shows that included "On Your Toes," "The Boys from Syracuse," and their masterpiece, "Pal Joey." But while success made Rodgers more confident, more musically daring, and more disciplined, for Hart the rounds of parties, wisecracks, and most of all drinking began to take more and more of a toll on his work. When Hart's unreliability forced Rodgers to reluctantly seek out another lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, and their collaboration resulted in the unprecedented artistic and commercial success of "Oklahoma," Hart never truly recovered. Meticulously researched and rich with anecdotes that capture the excitement, the hilarity, the dizzying heights, and the crushing lows of a life on Broadway, Lorenz Hart is the story of an American original.

Heritage Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction 2005 Catalog #624

Author : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Release Date : 2005-10
ISBN 10 : 1599670046
Pages : 312 pages
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Download Heritage Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction 2005 Catalog #624 book PDF by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inside/out

Author : Diana Fuss
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : 9780415902366
Pages : 426 pages
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Download Inside/out book PDF by Diana Fuss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the heterocentric foundations of critical scholarship and theories of sexual difference and investigates the complex relations between desires and identifications, libidinal economies and social configurations, political representations and sexual symbolizations.

Body and Soul

Author : Peter Stanfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 9780252029943
Pages : 213 pages
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Download Body and Soul book PDF by Peter Stanfield and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the "dark continent" of blues and jazz provided Hollywood with a resonant resource to construct and negotiate the boundaries of American cultural identity Writing in the late 1930s, New York journalist Joseph Mitchell observed: "Except for the minstrel show, the strip act is probably America's only original contribution to the theater." In Body and Soul, Peter Stanfield's arguments echo Mitchell's observation. Stanfield begins by exploring how Hollywood used blackface minstrelsy to represent an emerging urban American theatrical history, and ends with a look at how American film at the close of the studio era represented urban decay through the figure of the burlesque dancer and stripper. In between, Stanfield considers the representation of American urban life in jazz, blues, ballads, and sin-songs and the manner in which the film studios exploited this "gutter" music. Alongside extensive, thought-provoking, and lively analysis of some of the most popular jazz and blues songs of the twentieth century--"Frankie and Johnny," "St. Louis Blues," "The Man I Love," "Blues in the Night," and "Body and Soul"--the book contains new work on blackface minstrelsy in early sound movies, racial representation and censorship, torch singers and torch songs, burlesque and strippers, the noir cityscape, the Hollywood Left, and hot jazz. Peter Stanfield is Senior Lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of The Lost Trail: Hollywood and 1930s Westerns, and Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy.

The Alphabet Bomber

Author : Jeffrey D. Simon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-03
ISBN 10 : 9781640121614
Pages : 288 pages
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Download The Alphabet Bomber book PDF by Jeffrey D. Simon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 6, 1974, a bomb exploded at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring thirty-five others. It was the first time an airport had been bombed anywhere in the world. A few days later, police recovered a cassette tape containing a chilling message: “This first bomb was marked with the letter A, which stands for Airport,” said a voice. “The second bomb will be associated with the letter L, the third with the letter I, etc., until our name has been written on the face of this nation in blood.” In The Alphabet Bomber: A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time, internationally renowned terrorism expert Jeffrey D. Simon tells the gripping tale of Muharem Kurbegovic, a bright but emotionally disturbed Yugoslav immigrant who single-handedly brought Los Angeles to a standstill during the summer of 1974. He had conjured up the fictitious group “Aliens of America,” but it was soon discovered that he acted alone in a one-man war against government and society. The story of the Alphabet Bomber is about an extraordinary manhunt to find an elusive killer, a dogged prosecutor determined to bring him to justice, a pioneering female judge, and a devious mastermind whose heinous crimes foreshadowed the ominous threats we face today from lone wolf terrorists.

Filipino-American Postcolonial Psychology

Author : E. J. R. David, Ph.d.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-01
ISBN 10 : 9781456736347
Pages : 332 pages
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Download Filipino-American Postcolonial Psychology book PDF by E. J. R. David, Ph.d. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, where the legacies of Western colonialism continue to exist and propagate the message that anything Filipino is inferior to anything American or Western. Thus, many Filipinos dream of immigrating to various Western countries, mostly to the United States. Today, Filipinos have the second highest yearly immigration rate into the United States and compose the second largest immigrant group in the country. Also, Filipinos in America number over 3 million, making them the second largest Asian American ethnic group in the country. Not surprisingly, there has been increased attention on the experiences of Filipinos and Filipino Americans as minorities and immigrants, as well as toward better understanding their identity, cultural values, and mental health.However, given the conditions of postcolonial Philippines and the contemporary experiences of oppression by Filipinos in America, one cannot completely and accurately understand the minority, immigrant, and psychological experiences of this group outside the context of colonialism and contemporary oppression. Thus, this text focuses on the psychological effects of historical colonialism and contemporary oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. It takes the reader from indigenous Tao culture, Spanish and American colonialism, colonial mentality or internalized oppression along with its implications on Kapwa, identity, and mental health, to decolonization in the clinical, community, and research settings.This book is a multidisciplinary and empirical approach to Filipino and Filipino American psychology. It is intended for the entire community, teachers, researchers, students, and service providers interested in or who are working with Filipinos and Filipino Americans, or those who are interested in the psychological consequences of colonialism and oppression. This book may serve as a tool for remembering the past and as a tool for awakening to address the present.

Dance Hall Days

Author : Randy McBee
Publisher : NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-11-01
ISBN 10 : 9780814761199
Pages : 336 pages
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Download Dance Hall Days book PDF by Randy McBee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, while the young sought out the cheap amusements and sexual freedom which the urban landscape offered. At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes. Free from their parents and their strict rules governing sexual conduct, working women took advantage of their time in dance halls to challenge conventional gender norms. They routinely passed certain men over for dances, refused escorts home, and embraced the sensual and physical side of dance to further accentuate their superior skills and ability on the dance floor. Most men felt threatened by women's displays of empowerment and took steps to thwart the changes taking place. Accustomed to street corners, poolrooms, saloons, and other all-male get-togethers, working men tried to transform the dance hall into something that resembled these familiar hangouts. McBee also finds that men frequently abandoned the commercial dance hall for their own clubs, set up in the basements of tenement flats. In these hangouts, working men established rules governing intimacy and leisure that allowed them to regulate the behavior of the women who attended club events. The collective manner in which they behaved not only affected the organization of commercial leisure but also men and women's struggles with and against one another to define the meaning of leisure, sexuality, intimacy, and even masculinity.

A Ship Without A Sail

Author : Gary Marmorstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-07-16
ISBN 10 : 9781416594260
Pages : 544 pages
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Download A Ship Without A Sail book PDF by Gary Marmorstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenz Hart, together with Richard Rodgers, created some of the most beautiful and witty songs ever written. Here is the story of the strikingly unromantic life of this songwriting genius. His lyrics spin with brilliance and sophistication, yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfulness. Rodgers and Hart, who wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films, were an odd couple. Rodgers was precise, punctual, heterosexual, handsome, and eager to be accepted by society. Hart was barely five feet tall, alcoholic, homosexual, and more comfortable in a bar or restaurant than anywhere else. His lyrics are all the more remarkable considering that he never sustained a romantic relationship, living his entire life with his mother, who died only months before his own death at 48. Biographer Marmorstein superbly portrays the life of this exuberant yet troubled artist.--From publisher description.

The Taxi-Dance Hall

Author : Paul Goalby Cressey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
ISBN 10 : 0226120546
Pages : 334 pages
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Download The Taxi-Dance Hall book PDF by Paul Goalby Cressey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls. Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction notes, were social centers where men could come and pay to dance with “a bevy of pretty, vivacious, and often mercenary” women. Ten cents per dance was the usual fee, with half the proceeds going to the dancer and the other half to the owner of the taxi-hall. Cressey’s study includes detailed maps of the taxi-dance districts, illuminating interviews with dancers, patrons, and owners, and vivid analyses of local attempts to reform the taxi-dance hall and its attendees. Cressey’s study reveals these halls to be the distinctive urban consequence of tensions between a young, diverse, and economically independent population at odds with the restrictive regulations of Prohibition America. Thick with sexual vice, ethnic clashes, and powerful undercurrents of class, The Taxi-Dance Hall is a landmark example of Chicago sociology, perfect for scholars and history buffs alike.

Marginal People in Deviant Places

Author : Janice M. Irvine
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-07-25
ISBN 10 : 9780472902651
Pages : 348 pages
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Download Marginal People in Deviant Places book PDF by Janice M. Irvine and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California—helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the United States. Irvine demonstrates how the social scientists who told the stories of these marginalized groups represented an early challenge to then-dominant narratives of scientific racism, prefiguring the academic fields of gender, ethnic, sexuality, and queer studies in key ways. In recounting the social histories of certain American outsiders, Irvine identifies an American paradox by which social differences are both despised and desired, and she describes the rise of an outsider capitalism that integrates difference into American society by marketing it.

Feminisms in the Cinema

Author : Laura Pietropaolo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1995-06-22
ISBN 10 : 0253116236
Pages : 256 pages
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Download Feminisms in the Cinema book PDF by Laura Pietropaolo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Feminisms in the Cinema provides a platform for both women filmmakers and the women who analyze their films." -- Bloomsbury Review "... invaluable... [demonstrates] how gender and genre intersect... how feminisms are flourishing, at home and abroad." -- Women's Review of Books Well-known feminist theorists juxtapose their work with that of women filmmakers. Each writer addresses some aspect of marginality, discussing it as a political strategy and as a challenge to power structures.

Framed

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : 0816634572
Pages : 224 pages
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Download Framed book PDF by Judith Mayne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Framed, Judith Mayne, a respected critic whose reach extends from film, literature, and feminism to the culture at large, offers a sustained exploration of feminist approaches to film and mass culture, with a particular focus on how contradiction informs feminism in productive and challenging ways. Accessible and engaging, Framed will be of interest to anyone who enjoys investigating women's roles in the creation of mass culture. -- from back cover.

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Author : Victoria Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-11-24
ISBN 10 : 9781439194065
Pages : 1056 pages
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Download A Life of Barbara Stanwyck book PDF by Victoria Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Capra called her, "The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known." Yet she was one of its most natural, timeless, and underrated stars. Now Victoria Wilson, gives us the most complete portrait we have yet had, or will have, of this magnificent actresses, seen as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock…her years in New York as dancer and Broadway star…her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius, who influenced a generation of actors and comedians (among them, Jack Benny and Stanwyck herself)…the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with the "unfunny" Marx brother, Zeppo, together creating one of the finest horse breeding farms in the west; her fairytale romance and marriage to the younger Robert Taylor, America's most sought-after male star…Here is the shaping of her career working with many of Hollywood's most important directors: among them, Capra, King Vidor, Cecil B. Demille, Preston Sturges, all set against the times-the Depression, the rise of the unions, the coming of World War II and a fast-evolving coming-of-age motion picture industry. At the heart of the book, Stanwyck herself-her strengths, her fears, her desires-how she made use of the darkness in her soul, keeping it at bay in her private life, transforming herself from shunned outsider into one of Hollywood's-and America's-most revered screen actresses. Written with full access to Stanwyck's family, friends, colleagues, and never-before-seen letters, journals and photographs.