Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity. Paperback 2005

Description: Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity. Paperback 2005. In the early years of the twentieth century, moving pictures blazed like a comet in the night-life sky with the other practices and entertainments streaming away in brilliant tails, scattering the sparks of modernity into everyday life. Together they reshaped the possibilities of the modern world for the people of Sydney. DANCE HALL & PICTURE PALACE paints Sydney between the depressions of the 1890s and the 1930s as a prosperous city riding an international wave of modernism. In theipub, parlour and pulpit, people clashed over the significance of moving pictures, jazz, new dance crazes, the jadio, gramophone records and cheap magazines In this vibrant history, Jill Julius Matthews describes the innovative marketing techniques that provoked cultural elites to deplore commercialisation. She uncovers entrepreneurs bribing politicians as they Any day, any flapper aggressively pursued profits for their American patrons, while regulators enforced new rules that thwarted returns. And she details how here, as elsewhere, young flappers came to embody both glamour and decadence in modern city life. Amid a promiscuous mingling of culture and commerce, Sydney's people embraced a cosmopolitan identity as modern Australian citizens of the world. JILL JULIUS MATTHEWS is Reader in History at the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

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