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

by Dale Cockrell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393608948
• ISBN13: 9780393608946
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"