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Satan in the Dance Hall

Author : Ralph G. Giordano
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863634
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Satan in the Dance Hall written by Ralph G. Giordano and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dance Hall Days

Author : Randy McBee
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814756204
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Dance Hall Days written by Randy McBee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beyond the Crossroads

Author : Adam Gussow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633671
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Crossroads written by Adam Gussow and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Recursive Frontier

Author : Michael Docherty
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143849713X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Recursive Frontier written by Michael Docherty and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil's Dance Floor

Author : G. Shirreffs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099440116
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dance Floor written by G. Shirreffs and published by . This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Woods, Chill Waters

Author : Marcus LiBrizzi
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 0892728248
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Dark Woods, Chill Waters written by Marcus LiBrizzi and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The American Mercury

Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The American Mercury written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Mercury

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The American Mercury written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil's Dance Floor

Author : Gordon D. Shirreffs
Publisher : Fawcett Books
ISBN 13 : 9780449149072
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dance Floor written by Gordon D. Shirreffs and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Satan's Playground

Author : Paul J Vanderwood
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082239166X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Satan's Playground written by Paul J Vanderwood and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307395227
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Satan's Circus written by Mike Dash and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They called it Satan’s Circus—a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was a place where everyone from the chorus girls to the beat cops was on the take and where bad boys became wicked men; a place where an upstanding young policeman such as Charley Becker could become the crookedest cop who ever stood behind a shield. Murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan’s Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York’s vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan’s underworld? With appearances by the legendary and the notorious—including Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord of Tammany Hall; future president Theodore Roosevelt; beloved gangster Jack Zelig; and the newly famous author Stephen Crane—Satan’s Circus brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham. Chronicling Charley Becker’s rise and fall, the book tells of the raucous, gaudy, and utterly corrupt city that made him, and recounts not one but two sensational murder trials that landed him in the electric chair.

Dancing with the Devil

Author : José Eduardo Limón
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299142247
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Devil written by José Eduardo Limón and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extended ethnographic essay that explores the socially produced, narratively mediated, and relatively unconscious ideological responses of people--scholars and folk--to a history of race and class domination, with specific reference to several distinct though inter- related spheres of folkloric symbolic action concerning the working classes of Mexican-American south Texas. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Satan's Caravan

Author : Grace Conlon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059535811X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Satan's Caravan written by Grace Conlon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan's Caravan, a Victory over the Adversary is an action-packed story of a young boy orphaned on the prairie during the turbulent pioneer movement of the mid-1800's. It is a novel of "historical fiction", based in part on the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. The boy is befriended by an unlikely hero-a middle-aged Boston schoolteacher who is running away from tragic events in his own life. In joining a wagon train of misfits, they are caught up in a daily struggle to survive. Along the way, the pioneers barely escape the murderous intentions of rogues with their party, lose some members during a flash flood and cope with the constant threat of Indian ambushes-culminating in a savage attack and massacre when they reach the territory that is now the state of Utah. The Indian attackers in Satan's Caravan, as is recorded in history of the region, were joined by members of the Mormon Church. The author delineates the unsettled state of society, which explains how such a massacre might have taken place. Satan's Caravan does not propose that this wagon train was the one ambushed in the mountain meadow but rather that the unsavory nature of some western-bound pioneers, and their behavior toward the earlier settlers, may have pushed the situation beyond the limits of human decency.

Some Examples of Early Twentieth-century Dance Halls in Southern Michigan

Author : Chris Hanlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Some Examples of Early Twentieth-century Dance Halls in Southern Michigan written by Chris Hanlin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Satan Sanderson

Author : Hallie Erminie Rives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Satan Sanderson written by Hallie Erminie Rives and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Satan's Whiskers

Author : Roy A Higgins
Publisher : Roy A Higgins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan's Whiskers written by Roy A Higgins and published by Roy A Higgins. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the reign of the Beatles and on the back of the Mersey beat revolution, other rock and pop bands emerged. Ray Evans joins one of these emerging bands and the story plots the rise and fall of the band Satan’s Whiskers. A dark shadow hangs over the band after a child is discovered murdered and hidden in a cardboard box. A vigilante tracks down the culprits and extracts retribution. This is the start of a vigilante killing spree. From the very outset the police suspect that one if not all of the band members are involved, as the killings appear to closely follow the band’s movements. Is the killer really a band member? The story will keep you guessing until the very end.