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A compelling look at the people and action of America¹s most famous street
scene

WHERE THE BALL DROPS: Days and Nights in Times Square
Daniel Makagon
University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4275-5 | paperback | $20.00
National Communication Association¹s Critical/Cultural Studies Division Book
Award winner

During the 1990s, Times Square changed its colors, from a notoriously seedy
urban center to a family-friendly, corporate-sponsored entertainment
district. Daniel Makagon captures the competing social and cultural
fantasies, the everyday events and historical visions that have given shape
and meaning to Times Square. Where the Ball Drops reveals the changes
wrought by the contemporary urban revitalization.

"Daniel Makagon presents a skillful ethnographic interpretation of how
Œcompeting fantasies about the meaning and material reality of Times Square,
which are advanced through various rhetoric visions, are affirmed,
challenged, and, at times, undermined by the practices of everyday life¹."
‹Cultural Studies

For more information, including an excerpt and the table of contents, visit
the book¹s webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/makagon_where.html

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