‘I was a Sociological Stranger’: Ethnographic Fieldwork and Undercover Performance in the Publication of The Taxi‐Dance Hall, 1925–1932

From 1926 to 1928, Paul G. Cressey, a graduate student in sociology, assumed the role of ‘sociological stranger’ and frequented Chicago's taxi‐dance halls on a nightly basis. Under the guise of a paying customer, Cressey purchased dances, engaged in conversations and documented the life stories...

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