Dance hall & picture palace : Sydney's romance with modernity /

Dance hall & picture palace : Sydney's romance with modernity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Matthews, Jill Julius.
Imprint:	Sydney : Currency Press, 2005.
Description:	x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Popular culture -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century. City and town life -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century. Theater and society -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century. Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) Women -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Cosmopolitanism -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century. City and town life. Civilization. Cosmopolitanism. Motion pictures -- Social aspects. Popular culture. Social conditions Theater and society. Women -- Social conditions. Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Civilization -- 20th century. Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 20th century. New South Wales -- Sydney. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11693606

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Dance hall and picture palace
ISBN:	0868197556 9780868197555
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index.
Other form:	Online version: Matthews, Jill Julius. Dance hall & picture palace. Sydney : Currency Press, 2005

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Summary:	Explores how the pleasures of cinema, as well as radio, gramophone records and cheap magazines, suffused the city and its people with new practices and values. This title also shows how the people of Sydney were encouraged both to enjoy and to regulate those pleasures, and in the process learning the ways to make themselves modern.
Physical Description:	x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index.
ISBN:	0868197556 9780868197555