10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAXI DANCING»
Discover the use of
taxi dancing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
taxi dancing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and ...
Selling the Dancer: Client/Dancer Interaction in Modern Taxi-Dancing Carrie
Stern In 1982, a few years after the closing of the last taxi-dance hall in New York,
1 Albert Ginsberg who had recently purchased Roseland Dance City decided to ...
2
Big Charlene's Weight-Loss Supper Club and
Taxi Dancing: A ...
How did I wind up in a Kentucky jail cell?
3
The
Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized ...
In Seattle the transition from the "forty-nine" or Bar- bary Coast dance hall to the
taxi-dance hall was not entirely completed, and in many cases establishments
remain which still pay a commission on both drinks and taxi-dancing. The older ...
Paul Goalby Cressey, 2008
4
New Sociologies of Sex Work
This section locates taxi dancing in Argentina's economic and social history and
offers information about taxi dancing itself. The substantive part of the chapter is
split into two sections. The first explores the ways in which the labour of the taxi ...
Dr Kate Hardy, Ms Sarah Kingston, Dr Teela Sanders, 2012
5
The Urban Ethnography Reader
Taxi-Dancing. When the life and activities in the taxi-dance halls of a certain city
begin to pall, the taxi-dancer may travel to another city where she can secure
similar employment. She will find in almost every large city15 taxi-dance halls, ...
Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, 2013
6
Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New ...
Like other forms of sex work developed in the 1920s, taxi dancing paid high
wages, required social contact with male patrons, and restricted its workforce to
white women.4 Taxi dancing was paradigmatic of sexualized entertainment and
sex ...
Elizabeth Alice Clement, 2006
7
Automats,
Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating ...
This ruse was common during the early days of taxi dancing, as it obscured the
mercantile aspects of maleto-female exchange through an emphasis on
education—in a way that helped, at least for a time, minimize the risk of
surveillance.
8
Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in ...
27 Indeed, even Carey McWilliams quipped that taxi dancing "is about the
costliest [entertainment] to be found in California: ten cents for a dance that lasts
exactly one minute."28 Still, most Filipinos bought rolls of tickets in the dance
halls.
Joe Austin, Michael Willard, 1998
9
Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the ...
Nevertheless, taxi dancing held occupational risks. Like prostitution, taxi dancing
could not last long as a career; typically, by her late twenties, a woman had
played out her attractiveness and could not compete with newer, younger
dancers.
Caroline Jean Acker, 2005
10
Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities & Practices
The practice of taxi-dancing also has borderline status as a form of employment
for young women and as a business enterprise more generally. Like massage
parlours and escort agencies, taxi-dancing challenges the conventions of the
wider ...
