Criminal Mischief

Chevigny, Paul.

Pant

1st ed. thus. Hard cover. Vintage Books, New York, NY (9/1969) Very Good. No dust jacket. Fine, except for signature inside of cover and some staining on back cover. Unknown printing. 298 p. ; bibliography; Bibliography: p. [296]-298.

Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City

New York: Pantheon Books, 1969

Cops & Rebels: A Study of Provocation

NY: Pantheon Books, (1972)

Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City. This second edition includes a new preface by Hamish Birchall and an introduction by the series editors, Guy Osborn and Steve Greenfield, as well as an afterword by the author, and it will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of social attitudes toward the popular arts and the use of constitutional litigation for social change.

Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture)

Arts & Photography

Music

Routledge

Gigs provides a fascinating account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City.  This second edition includes a new preface by Hamish Birchall and an introduction by the series editors, Guy Osborn and Steve Greenfield, as well as an afterword by the author, and it will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of social attitudes toward the popular arts and the use of constitutional litigation for social change.

Gigs (Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

This book provides an account of a unique victory for musicians against repressive entertainment licensing laws. It provides a much-needed study of the social, political, cultural and legal conditions surrounding a change in law and public attitudes toward vernacular music in New York City.

Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (After the Law)

History

Americas

Gigs tells the story of New York City's cabaret laws which for two generations acted as a means of control and repression of jazz music. Paul Chevigny, a noted lawyer who represented the musicians in the case documented in this book, discusses the racial prejudices of the city and the larger society as embodied in zoning policy and repressive licensing.

Drawing on modern philosophy of language and on cognitive psychology, this title constructs an argument for free speech and related procedural rights. It makes a case for maximum freedom of expression on the part of individuals and for a corresponding sharing of information on the part of governments, seeing this 'dialogue' as a basic right.

More Speech: Dialogue Rights and Modern Liberty

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Temple University Press

Human Rights in Jamaica (An Americas Watch Report)

Politics & Government

Fund for Free Expression

Police abuse in Brazil: Summary executions and torture in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (An Americas Watch report)

Americas Watch Committee

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