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The Taxi-dance Hall
Paul Goalby Cressey
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Description for The Taxi-dance Hall
Paperback. A study of the commercial public dance institution in early twentieth-century Chicago as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire. Num Pages: 324 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226120515
SKU
V9780226120515
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