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Underground movements : modern culture on the New York City subway / Sunny Stalter-Pace.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stalter-Pace, Sunny, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Science/technology/culture.
- Science/Technology/Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Subways--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Subways--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Popular culture--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For more than a century the New York City subway system has been a vital part of the city's identity, even as judgments of its value have varied.It has been celebrated as the technological embodiment of the American melting pot and reviled as a blighted urban netherworld.
- Contents:
- Forming the subway habit
- How the subway became sublime
- Minding the gaps in modernist poetry
- Underground assimilation in ethnic drama
- Uncanny migration narratives
- Conclusion : the private subway in the postmodern city.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-287-9
- OCLC:
- 867742122
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