Taxi-Dance Hall A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life

Name: Taxi-Dance Hall A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life
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ISBN: 9780226120515

ISBN-10: 0226120511

ISBN-13: 9780226120515

Edition: 1932

Authors: Paul Goalby Cressey

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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…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1932
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English