Author: Dale Cockrell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising Cain Everybody’s Doin’ It is the eye-opening story of popular music’s seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York’s spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely—to the horror of the elite. This rollicking demimonde drove the development of an energetic dance music that would soon span the world. The Virginia Minstrels, Juba, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin and his hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and the Original Dixieland Jass Band all played a part in popularizing startling new sounds. Musicologist Dale Cockrell recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposés, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places. Everybody’s Doin’ It illuminates the how, why, and where of America’s popular music and its buoyant journey from the dangerous Five Points of downtown to the interracial black and tans of Harlem.
Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
Author: Dale Cockrell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising Cain Everybody’s Doin’ It is the eye-opening story of popular music’s seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York’s spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely—to the horror of the elite. This rollicking demimonde drove the development of an energetic dance music that would soon span the world. The Virginia Minstrels, Juba, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin and his hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and the Original Dixieland Jass Band all played a part in popularizing startling new sounds. Musicologist Dale Cockrell recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposés, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places. Everybody’s Doin’ It illuminates the how, why, and where of America’s popular music and its buoyant journey from the dangerous Five Points of downtown to the interracial black and tans of Harlem.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608956
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising Cain Everybody’s Doin’ It is the eye-opening story of popular music’s seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular music, including ragtime and jazz, to convivial meeting places for sex, drink, music, and dance. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York’s spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely—to the horror of the elite. This rollicking demimonde drove the development of an energetic dance music that would soon span the world. The Virginia Minstrels, Juba, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin and his hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” and the Original Dixieland Jass Band all played a part in popularizing startling new sounds. Musicologist Dale Cockrell recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposés, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places. Everybody’s Doin’ It illuminates the how, why, and where of America’s popular music and its buoyant journey from the dangerous Five Points of downtown to the interracial black and tans of Harlem.
The Round Table
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York. Supplement
Author: New York. Mercantile Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Secrets of the Great City
Author: James D. McCabe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Catalogue of the Apprentices' Library
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Fault Lines of Modernity
Author: Kitty Millet
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501316664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity's complicated relationship to the past.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501316664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity's complicated relationship to the past.