LEADER 04752nam 22006253u 450 001 9910784714303321 005 20230823210643.0 010 $a0-19-535776-0 010 $a1-4294-0661-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000405825 035 $a(EBL)1591185 035 $a(OCoLC)908078651 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122626 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145258 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122626 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10124237 035 $a(PQKB)11288700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1591185 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000405825 100 $a20161010d1995|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe city in slang $eNew York life and popular speech /$fIrving L. Allen 210 $aCary $cOxford University Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-19-509265-1 327 $aContents; PART I: Manhattan in the Mirror of Slang; 1. New York City Life and Popular Speech; 2. The Social Meaning of City Streets; PART II: The Modern Ruptures of Traditional Life; 3. The Bright Lights; 4. New Ways of Urban Living; 5. Tall Buildings; PART III: The Shadow Worlds of Social Class in City Life; 6. Mean Streets; 7. The Sporting Life; PART IV: The Naming of Social Differences; 8. Social Types in City Streets; 9. Us and Them; 10. The Contempt for Provincial Life; Notes; References and Bibliography; Index of Words and Phrases; Author and Subject Index 330 $aThe American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides ineffect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and thesights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behindonce-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life. 606 $aAmericanisms$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aCity and town life$xTerminology 606 $aEnglish language$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSlang 606 $aEnglish language$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aEnglish language$xSpoken English$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aPopular culture$zNew York (State)$zNew York 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aAmericanisms 615 0$aCity and town life$xTerminology. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSlang. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSocial aspects 615 0$aEnglish language$xSpoken English 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a427.97471 676 $a427/.97471 700 $aAllen$b Irving L.$f1931-2002.$01578912 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784714303321 996 $aThe city in slang$93858609 997 $aUNINA