Dance Hall & Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with ModernityExplores 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. |
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