TY  - GEN
T1  - The immigrant scene : ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920
A1  - Haenni, Sabine
LA  - English
PP  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn310982039
AB  - 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. Considering th.
OP  - 323
CN  - PN2277.N5 H26 2008eb
SN  - 9780816666355
SN  - 0816666350
SN  - 9780816649815
SN  - 0816649812
SN  - 9780816649822
SN  - 0816649820
KW  - Ethnic theater : New York (State) : New York : History : 19th century.
KW  - Ethnic theater : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century.
KW  - Immigrants in motion pictures.
KW  - Motion pictures : United States.
KW  - Théâtre ethnique : New York (État) : New York : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Théâtre ethnique : New York (État) : New York : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Cinéma : États-Unis.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Ethnic theater
KW  - Immigrants in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - New York (State) : New York
KW  - United States
KW  - 1800-1999
KW  - History
ER  -