Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls,...
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Author: Dale Cockrell
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Cockrell, Dale

Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

$66.22

Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

$66.22
Author: Dale Cockrell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Dale Cockrell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/13/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780393608946


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/06/2019
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2019 pg. 37
Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 112
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2019
Shelf Awareness 08/16/2019

About the Author
Cockrell, Dale: - Dale Cockrell is professor emeritus of musicology at Vanderbilt University and a research associate of the University of the Free State (South Africa). His Demons of Disorder won the C. Hugh Holman Award. He lives in Vermont and New York City.

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