Everybody's doin' it : sex, music, and dance in New York, 1840-1917
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xvi, 270 pages : black & white illustrations, map, photographs ; 24 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index (pages 261-270).
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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.
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General Adult.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Cockrell, D. (2019). Everybody's doin' it: sex, music, and dance in New York, 1840-1917 (First Edition.). W. W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cockrell, Dale. 2019. Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Cockrell, Dale. Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Cockrell, Dale. Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 First Edition., W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.

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