Publication
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019].
ISBN
9780393608953
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Libertines, blackface minstrels, and the small-potatoe humbug
Asmodeus, Juba, and Blood on fire
The wickedest man, the pugilist, and pretty waiter girls
The bishop, Comstock, and juvenile delinquents
Dives, cornets, and the Cancan out-Paris-ed in New York
Ragtime, spieling, and leapfrogging for the reverend
Tough dancing, white slavery, and "Just tell them that you saw me"
C XIV, alleged music, and superlatively rotten dances
Reflections
Appendix 1. Songs identified by Committee of Fourteen Agents, 1913-1917
Appendix 2. "Cock eyed Reilly"
Appendix 3. The people etc. against Wallace W. Sweeney
Introduction
Libertines, blackface minstrels, and the small-potatoe humbug
Asmodeus, Juba, and Blood on fire
The wickedest man, the pugilist, and pretty waiter girls
The bishop, Comstock, and juvenile delinquents
Dives, cornets, and the Cancan out-Paris-ed in New York
Ragtime, spieling, and leapfrogging for the reverend
Tough dancing, white slavery, and "Just tell them that you saw me"
C XIV, alleged music, and superlatively rotten dances
Reflections
Appendix 1. Songs identified by Committee of Fourteen Agents, 1913-1917
Appendix 2. "Cock eyed Reilly"
Appendix 3. The people etc. against Wallace W. Sweeney