Full Description
First published in 2003. This is Volume II of eight in the Early Sociology of Culture collection and offers a sociological study on the commercialized recreation. Paul G. Cressey while serving as a case-worker and special investigator for the Juvenile Protective Association was requested during the summer of 1925 to report upon the new and then quite unfamiliar closed dance halls. This book is in a sense the outgrowth of those assignments.
Contents
PART 1. THE TAXI-DANCE HALL: WHAT IT IS I. A NIGHT IN A TAXI-DANCE HALL. II. THE TAXI-DANCE HALL AS A TYPE PART II. THE TAXI-DANCER AND HER WORLD Ill. THE TAXI-DANCE HALL AS A SOCIAL WORLD. IV. THE FAMILY AND SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE TAXIDANCER. V.THE LIFE-CYCLE OF THE TAXI-DANCER PART HI. THE PATRON AND HIS PROBLEMS VI. THE PATRON: WHO HE Is; WHY HE COMES VII. THE FILIPINO AND THE TAXI-DANCE HALL .PART IV. THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF THE TAXI-DANCE HALL VIII. THE ORIGINS OF THE TAXI-DANCE HALL. IX. THE TAXI-DANCE HALL MEETS THE PUBLIC X. COMPETITION, CONFLICT, AND SPECIALIZATION AMONG TAXI-DANCE HALLS XI. THE LOCATION OF THE TAXI-DANCE HALL 224 PART V. THE TA.XI-DANCE HALL PROBLEM XII. PERSONAL DEMORALIZATION. XIII. THE TAXI-DANCE HALL AND SOCIAL REFORM
