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

How Long Does it Take to Read Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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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 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.

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

Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 by Dale Cockrell is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 aloud.

What Reading Level is Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917?

Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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