The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 18801920
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 18801920
By (Author) Sabine Haenni
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
10th February 2009
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Film history, theory or criticism
Migration, immigration and emigration
791.430973
Physical Properties
Paperback
344
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
Description
Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles: mediating the vast cultural, demographic, and social changes that were sweeping the nation's largest city. In The Immigrant Scene, Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century.
