The Immigrant Scene – Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 Haenni Paperback

The Immigrant SceneEthnic Amusements in New York, 18801920\nAuthor(s): Sabine Haenni\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816649822, 978-0816649822\nSynopsis\nExplores the relationship between immigrant and national culture\n\nYiddish 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 nations largest city. \n\nIn 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 the relationship between leisure and mass culture, The Immigrant Scene develo.