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  • Everybody's Doin' It

    Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

    by Dale Cockrell ...
    "Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." —William Lhamon, author of Raising CainEverybody’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 ... Read more

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    Everybody's Doin' It

    Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917

    by Dale Cockrell ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    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 ... Read more

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  • Pasticcio and Temperance Plays in America

    Il Pesceballo (1862) and Ten Nights Volume 8

    Edited by Dale Cockrell ...
    Series series Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater Series
    The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera. This series of sixteen volumes provides for the first time ever a comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical ... Read more

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    "The Monkey's Paw" is a supernatural short story (contained in "The Lady Of The Barge") by author W. W. Jacobs first published in England in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of the monkey's paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.This ebook contains a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a brief biography ... Read more

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