Pleasure Gardens, cabaret, nightclubs, rave & 350 years of the Big Night Out
· 30 min · Episode 906
Episode Pleasure Gardens, cabaret, nightclubs, rave & 350 years of the Big Night Out
Mass commercial nightlife began in a Japanese Pleasure Garden in 1657 and it’s blossomed ever since – via Victorian Vauxhall, cabaret Paris, jazz-driven New Orleans, flappers, speakeasies, moonshine, Studio 54 and the rave palaces of the 21st Century. Imogen Willetts tracks its riotous evolution in ‘Up All Night: A History of Going Out’ and wonders if the invention of the iPhone has burst the balloon. She talks to us here about …
... the Tango, the Can-Can: dances that got you arrested
… how bourgeois French ‘slummers’ found a taste of danger
… the heady allure in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as an escape from Victorian squalor
… how Anita Berber’s chloroform ballet shocked and delighted Weimar Berlin
… when dancing was a mating ritual and the impact of Dating Apps
… democracy on the dancefloor: the unrepeatable mix of punters and celebrities at Studio 54
… and how the invention of the electric light got people going out and the iPhone made them stay home
Order ‘Up All Night’ here: https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/imogen-willetts/up-all-night/9781399617093/
Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear
Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Links in the notes 3
Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them. Explicit shows are for adult profiles only, and children’s profiles hear only children’s shows. More about this list.