The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
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| Beschreibung: | Thomas A. Chambers, Niagara University:The Playful Crowd does what few studies of leisure have attempted--compare tourism across time and space. Auvo Kostiainen:A valuable book for students studying pleasure, leisure, and tourism. Scott C. Martin:The Playful Crowd succeeds admirably, both as comparative history and as a study of popular leisure. Susan Currell:Engaging... fascinating... excellent... a model of collaborative scholarship, this book contributes much to the history of twentieth-century amusements. Brad Beaven, University of Portsmouth:...A fascinating account of the changing nature of the pleasure-seeking crowd in the US and Britain during the twentieth century. This book, which is vividly and engagingly written, makes a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a cultural phenomenon. Social history at its best... Essential. Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky, coeditor of Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe and North America:Cross and Walton's well-researched and elegantly written study tracks the historical trajectories of popular resorts, theme parks, and open air museums in the U.S. and Britain.... The result is a fascinating and nuanced book that attends to the diverse regional, national, and entrepreneurial factors that shaped these designed and mostly commercial places. It also takes seriously the generative capacities and leisure practices of the 'playful crowds' themselves. A lively, intelligent, and pleasurable read! Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba, author of Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, providing well-ordered, squeaky-clean, and carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment. Contrasting the experiences of Coney Island and Blackpool with those of Disneyland and Beamish, Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton explore playful crowds and the pursuit of pleasure in the twentieth century to offer a transatlantic perspective on changing ideas about leisure, class, and mass culture. Blackpool and Coney Island were the definitive playgrounds of the industrial working class. Teeming crowds partook of a gritty vulgarity that offered a variety of pleasures and thrills from roller coaster rides and freak shows to dance halls and dioramas of exotic locales. Responding to the new money and mobility of the working class, the purveyors of Coney Island and Blackpool offered the playful crowd an "industrial saturnalia."Cross and Walton capture the sights and sounds of Blackpool and Coney Island and consider how these "Sodoms by the sea" flouted the social and cultural status quo. The authors also examine the resorts' very different fates as Coney Island has now become a mere shadow of its former self while Blackpool continues to lure visitors and offer new attractions. The authors also explore the experiences offered at Disneyland an |
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| spelling | Walton, John K. Verfasser aut The Playful Crowd Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century by John K. Walton, Gary Cross New York Columbia University Press [2005] 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Thomas A. Chambers, Niagara University:The Playful Crowd does what few studies of leisure have attempted--compare tourism across time and space. Auvo Kostiainen:A valuable book for students studying pleasure, leisure, and tourism. Scott C. Martin:The Playful Crowd succeeds admirably, both as comparative history and as a study of popular leisure. Susan Currell:Engaging... fascinating... excellent... a model of collaborative scholarship, this book contributes much to the history of twentieth-century amusements. Brad Beaven, University of Portsmouth:...A fascinating account of the changing nature of the pleasure-seeking crowd in the US and Britain during the twentieth century. This book, which is vividly and engagingly written, makes a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a cultural phenomenon. Social history at its best... Essential. Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky, coeditor of Being Elsewhere: Tourism, Consumer Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe and North America:Cross and Walton's well-researched and elegantly written study tracks the historical trajectories of popular resorts, theme parks, and open air museums in the U.S. and Britain.... The result is a fascinating and nuanced book that attends to the diverse regional, national, and entrepreneurial factors that shaped these designed and mostly commercial places. It also takes seriously the generative capacities and leisure practices of the 'playful crowds' themselves. A lively, intelligent, and pleasurable read! Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba, author of Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, providing well-ordered, squeaky-clean, and carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment. Contrasting the experiences of Coney Island and Blackpool with those of Disneyland and Beamish, Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton explore playful crowds and the pursuit of pleasure in the twentieth century to offer a transatlantic perspective on changing ideas about leisure, class, and mass culture. Blackpool and Coney Island were the definitive playgrounds of the industrial working class. Teeming crowds partook of a gritty vulgarity that offered a variety of pleasures and thrills from roller coaster rides and freak shows to dance halls and dioramas of exotic locales. Responding to the new money and mobility of the working class, the purveyors of Coney Island and Blackpool offered the playful crowd an "industrial saturnalia."Cross and Walton capture the sights and sounds of Blackpool and Coney Island and consider how these "Sodoms by the sea" flouted the social and cultural status quo. The authors also examine the resorts' very different fates as Coney Island has now become a mere shadow of its former self while Blackpool continues to lure visitors and offer new attractions. The authors also explore the experiences offered at Disneyland an In English Geschichte 1900-2000 gnd rswk-swf 20th Century bisacsh History bisacsh United States bisacsh Geschichte Freizeitpark (DE-588)4199476-0 gnd rswk-swf USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 g Freizeitpark (DE-588)4199476-0 s Geschichte 1900-2000 z 1\p DE-604 USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g 2\p DE-604 Cross, Gary Sonstige oth http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/cros12724 Verlag Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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