ISBN:
0203181352
,
0415076358
,
9780415076357
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 214 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany : Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia
DDC:
3063/6/0943
Keywords:
Popular culture History
;
Working class Recreation
;
History
;
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Abstract:
This comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry also provides a major contribution to the social history of working-class life in the nineteenth century
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; A Time and Place for Leisure; Time and inclination; The ability to pay; The Industrialization of Popular Culture; The working-class parish fair; Conflicts and resolutions; The segregation of festival culture; Socialist festival culture; Blueprint for the future; The Lubricant of Leisure; Workplace drinking; Drink and the family; Drink and the labour movement; Cultural aid to social stimulant; From the Street to the Stage; The taming of popular entertainment; Tingel-Tangels and music halls; The dance craze; Real entertainment
Description / Table of Contents:
The Organization of LeisureThe beginnings of associational life; An 'alternative' associational movement; Club life; Spontaneity to organization; The Struggle for Control; Useful pursuits; Lungs of the city; Social reform or social control?; From Control to Commercialization; The rise of the cinema; Commercial culture versus working-class culture; The triumph of commercial culture?; Conclusions: a Working-Class Leisure Culture?; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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