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