Squints through an opera glass / by Young gent. who hadn't anything else to do

Subjects: “…Astor Place Opera House.…”
Gale Cengage Learning

Democracy at the opera : music, theater, and culture in New York City, 1815-60 / by Ahlquist, Karen, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…English opera as popular culture : The Beggar's opera tradition -- Nature's new mirror : English opera and theatrical reform -- Culture and commerce : the first opera nights in New York -- "Directly from the heart" : English opera and the power of music in the age of sentiment -- The failure that flourished : early New York opera houses -- The new Italian opera and its reception -- Opera and the "higher order of composition."…”

The story of the Metropolitan Opera, 1883-1950, a candid history. by Kolodin, Irving, 1908-1988

Showtime : a history of the Broadway musical theater / by Stempel, Larry

Grindhouse : cultural exchange on 42nd Street, and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia -- Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 -- Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film -- Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies -- Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema -- Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story -- Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia -- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western -- Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle -- David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper -- Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors.…”