Everybody's doin' it : sex, music, and dance in New York, 1840-1917
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Walworth-Seely Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
781.6 Cockrell
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781.6 Cockrell
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Music -- New York (State) -- New York
Music -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
New York (N.Y.)
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1901-1910 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1911-1920 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Popular music.
Music -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
New York (N.Y.)
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1901-1910 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1911-1920 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- To 1901 -- History and criticism.
Popular music -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Popular music.
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvi, 270 pages : black & white illustrations, map, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index (pages 261-270).
Description
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.
Target Audience
General Adult.
Citations
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. 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 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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