Satan In The Dance Hall
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Satan In The Dance Hall
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Author : Ralph G. Giordano
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2008-10-23
Satan In The Dance Hall written by Ralph G. Giordano and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-23 with Performing Arts categories.
Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. Giordano conveys an easy to read and full picture of life in the Jazz Age, incorporating important events and personalities such as the Flu Epidemic, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Prohibition, Flappers, Gangsters, Texas Guinan, and Charles Lindbergh, while simultaneously describing how social dancing was a hugely prominent cultural phenomenon, one closely intertwined with nearly every aspect of American society fromthe Great War to the Great Depression. With a bibliography, an index, and over 35 photos, Satan in the Dance Hall presents an interdisciplinary study of social dancing in New York City throughout the decade.
The Devil S Dance Floor
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Author : G. Shirreffs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-05-01
The Devil S Dance Floor written by G. Shirreffs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-01 with categories.
Dance Hall Days
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Author : Randy McBee
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-11
Dance Hall Days written by Randy McBee and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with History categories.
At immigrant picnics, social clubs, and urban dance halls, Randy McBee discovers distinct and highly contested gender lines, proving that the battle between the ages was also one between the sexes."--BOOK JACKET.
The Devil S Dance Floor
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Author : Gordon D. Shirreffs
language : en
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Devil S Dance Floor written by Gordon D. Shirreffs and has been published by Fawcett Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Ash Mawson and his partner Dave Hunter search for a stolen figurine of the Virgin Mary crowned in gold, silver, and jewels--a search that takes them across the worst part of the Sonora Desert. Original.
Beyond The Crossroads
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Author : Adam Gussow
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Beyond The Crossroads written by Adam Gussow and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Music categories.
The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.
The Devil S Dream
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1858
The Devil S Dream written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1858 with categories.
The Recursive Frontier
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Author : Michael Docherty
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2024-05-01
The Recursive Frontier written by Michael Docherty and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. Contrary to the received wisdom that Depression-era narratives mourn the frontier's demise, Docherty argues that the frontier lives on as a cruel set of rules for survival in urban modernity, governing how texts figure race, space, mobility, and masculinity. Moving from dancehalls to offices to oil fields and beyond, the book provides a richer, more diverse picture of LA's literary production during this period, as well as a vivid account of LA's cultural and social development as it transformed into the multiethnic megalopolis we know today.
Dark Woods Chill Waters
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Author : Marcus LiBrizzi
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2007-09-04
Dark Woods Chill Waters written by Marcus LiBrizzi and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-04 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Forgotten somewhere between Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Brunswick, Canada, lies the most remote and mysterious section of the Eastern Seaboard. It is a region rich in stark beauty—and supernatural lore. The harsh landscape, with its rocky seaside cliffs and thundering surf and miles of dark, mysterious forest farther inland, lends itself to the ghost story. Overlaying the ghost tales gathered in this book is a sense of unspeakable horror and malice.
Satan S Playground
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Author : Paul J Vanderwood
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-09
Satan S Playground written by Paul J Vanderwood and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-09 with History categories.
Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Satan S Circus
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Author : Mike Dash
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-02-03
Satan S Circus written by Mike Dash and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with True Crime categories.
Mike Dash is a master of atmospheric and entertaining historical narrative. In Satan's Circus he vividly opens up the world of twentieth-century New York, telling the gripping story of police officer Charley Becker's rise and fall and of the sensational murder trials that led to his gruesome death in the electric chair. With a cast of colourful characters, from Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord, to future President Theodore Roosevelt and beloved gangster Jack Zelig, Satan's Circus brings to life an almost forgotten Gotham - a raucous, gaudy and utterly corrupt city.