Imogen Willetts

Up All Night (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Going Out

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is a specific energy to it. Cafes and shops close their shutters. Darkness descends. 'The air begins to tingle', wrote John Dos Passos of twenties New York. 'It's tonight if you drink enough, talk enough, walk far enough, that the train of magical events will begin.'

Barely four centuries ago, music, fashion, sex, architecture, art and booze first fused to create what we now call nightlife. It happened, strangely enough, in 17th-century Japan, in a remote marshland outside the shogun's capital. This den of hedonism and iniquity became a breeding ground for new ideas - and while the venues have changed, nightlife has been at the frontier of cultural innovation ever since.

Up All Night is the story of the good times and the great ones. Who invented jazz? What did 18th century Londoners do for entertainment? Why was Detroit the birthplace of techno? Who built Las Vegas? And what, in our increasingly online lives, are we missing when we pass up the chance of a big night out?

Join party historian Imogen Willetts for a guided tour of history's wildest nights out - piecing together tantalising ephemera and foggy reminiscences from shogunate Japan to noughties Hollywood, and every iconic scene in between.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399617093
• Artikelnr.: 74239021

Autorenporträt

Imogen Willetts is a creative producer and lecturer. Having worked at the Royal Academy of Arts for several years, where she launched the 'RA Lates', a sell-out series of immersive parties that reimagined the nightlife of seminal artistic movements, she now works as a Lecturer at Kingston School of Art.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Yoshiwara, Edo
2: The Pleasure Gardens, London
3: Montmartre, Paris
4: New Orleans 1913 – Tangomania
5: Weimar Berlin 6: The Harlem Renaissance
7: The Jazz Age – Chicago, Paris and Shangha
8: Post-War Opulence – Las Vegas and Havana
9: Discotheques and the Underground in New York City
10: DIY Nightclubs – New York, London and Los Angeles 1988 – The Second
Summer of Love
11: Techno, Found Spaces and Ruinlust – Detroit, Berlin and Belgrade
12: Noughties Los Angeles
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Text Permissions
Selected Bibliography
Index