Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure

Michael D. White is Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety at ASU. He is co-editor of Race, Ethnicity and Policing: New and Essential Readings and author of Current Issues and Controversies in Policing .David Freelandis a writer who specializes in music history and popular culture. He is a contributing writer to the weeklyNew York Press, and his articles and criticism have also appeared in music magazines includingAmerican Songwriter,Relix, andGoldmine. He is the author ofLadies of Soul, a history of under-recognized female vocalists from the 1960s,…  More and wrote the introduction, supplementary articles, and over 100 entries for Schirmers reference workBakers Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians. He lives in New York City.  Less