A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life
by
Paul Goalby Cressey
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
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...