Acknowledgments
Photographs
Introduction
Prologue
Part I: Structural Changes
Introductory Essay
Chapter 1. Developing for Commercial Culture
Chapter 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square
Chapter 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City
Chapter 4. The Discipline of Amusement
Chapter 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order
Part II: Entertainment and Commerce
Introductory Essay
Chapter 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture
Chapter 7. The Syndicate/Shubert War
Chapter 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife
Chapter 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s
Chapter 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley
Chapter 11. Broadway: The Place that Words Built
Part III: Commercial Aesthetics
Introductory Essay
Chapter 12. New York's Gigantic Toy
Chapter 13. Joseph Urban
Part IV: Boundaries of Respectability
Introductory Essay
Chapter 14. Policing of Sexuality
Chapter 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance
Chapter 16. Private Parts in Public Places
Afterword
Notes
Contributors
Index