Up All Night
Autor Imogen Willettsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iul 2027
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."
Nightlife, as defined by party historian Imogen Willetts, is "a commercial and secular environment designed to offer a variety of pleasures at night." Up All Night traces its history back to a surprising starting point: seventeenth-century Japan, in a remote party destination built outside the shogun's capital. Nightlife has been at the frontier of popular culture and self-expression ever since, making cities famous, nurturing iconic countercultures, and growing into a multibillion-dollar industry, yet its sweeping history has been left largely untold.
Up All Night is the story of the good nights and the great ones. How did jazz develop in the dancehalls of turn-of-the-century New Orleans? What was it like to party in 1920s Paris? Why were we so obsessed with the messy chaos of the early aughts LA scene? 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 behind the velvet rope of history's wildest nights out.
Preț: 160.38 lei
Precomandă
Puncte Express: 241
Carte nepublicată încă
Livrare prin curier în România Precomanda se expediază când titlul devine disponibil.
Transport gratuit de la 400.00 lei Plată online sau ramburs, în funcție de opțiunile comenzii.
Retur gratuit în 14 zile Comandă securizată și suport în română.
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Specificații
Notă biografică
Imogen Willetts is a historian and was Senior Creative Producer at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where she led its cultural programs of live events and festivals. This included leading the sell-out RA Lates series, after-hours gallery events that reimagined the nightlife behind iconic artistic movements, as well as an annual summer party that took inspiration from Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Imogen lectures in cultural and urban history at Kingston University's School of Art and at Central Saint Martins. Up All Night is her first book.
Recenzii
Spills over with colourful anecdotes . . . The less talked-about locales are Willetts's real ace card. Take the story of Shanghai as a post-First World War party destination, where thousands of revolution-fleeing Russians found work in the city's clubs and dance halls - including Moscow's entire royal ballet. Or post-Second World War Las Vegas, where the Nevada nuclear test site became an entertaining light show in what's dubbed "Atomic Tourism" . . . Reading Up All Night makes you want to put it down - if only to step out into the seductive, thrilling night
A fabulous alternative history of the modern world . . . A bright and compelling read . . . After reading this tantalising record of [nightlife's] history, few could resist the urge to strike out in pursuit of it once again
A lively history of nightclubs through the ages . . . Filled with examples of how nightclubs subverted social hierarchies and thrived in opposition to mainstream culture
A sparkling cultural history: original in conception, prodigious in scope and written in appropriately high style. Its procession of nocturnal scenes is immersive, intoxicating and full of surprises
A jaunty, jam-packed history of big nights out that revels in spectacle and theatricality, happiest when bringing the reader into spaces that have been transformed by imaginative special effects
Most party people can't remember how their night started - Imogen Willetts digs all the way back to the seventeenth century. Her thoroughly researched history of nightlife gives us a fizzy chronology of fine partying, with an emphasis on the expression, rebellion and escape that clubs and bars have always provided. I hereby raise a strong toast to this book, which gives historical evidence that a mad mix of music, cocktails and people in our face will never go away
What's the nightlife goss? It's all here babes! From witches in moonlight to 1980s East Village to Margate 2026, Up All Night covers a vast expanse of nightlife. The research and detail is sublime: the perfect celebration of the place where the best of life happens. Get your glad rags on: we're going out out
Meticulously researched and dangerously fun, Up All Night is so vivid and insightful, I needed a lie down afterwards
A fabulous alternative history of the modern world . . . A bright and compelling read . . . After reading this tantalising record of [nightlife's] history, few could resist the urge to strike out in pursuit of it once again
A lively history of nightclubs through the ages . . . Filled with examples of how nightclubs subverted social hierarchies and thrived in opposition to mainstream culture
A sparkling cultural history: original in conception, prodigious in scope and written in appropriately high style. Its procession of nocturnal scenes is immersive, intoxicating and full of surprises
A jaunty, jam-packed history of big nights out that revels in spectacle and theatricality, happiest when bringing the reader into spaces that have been transformed by imaginative special effects
Most party people can't remember how their night started - Imogen Willetts digs all the way back to the seventeenth century. Her thoroughly researched history of nightlife gives us a fizzy chronology of fine partying, with an emphasis on the expression, rebellion and escape that clubs and bars have always provided. I hereby raise a strong toast to this book, which gives historical evidence that a mad mix of music, cocktails and people in our face will never go away
What's the nightlife goss? It's all here babes! From witches in moonlight to 1980s East Village to Margate 2026, Up All Night covers a vast expanse of nightlife. The research and detail is sublime: the perfect celebration of the place where the best of life happens. Get your glad rags on: we're going out out
Meticulously researched and dangerously fun, Up All Night is so vivid and insightful, I needed a lie down afterwards
Descriere
Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
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.
'Spills over with colourful anecdotes . . . Reading Up All Night makes you want to put it down - if only to step out into the seductive, thrilling night' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A sparkling cultural history . . . Its procession of nocturnal scenes is immersive, intoxicating and full of surprises' MIKE JAY, author of PSYCHONAUTS
'A jaunty, jam-packed history of big nights out that revels in spectacle and theatricality' EMMA WARREN, author of DANCE YOUR WAY HOME
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.
'Spills over with colourful anecdotes . . . Reading Up All Night makes you want to put it down - if only to step out into the seductive, thrilling night' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'A sparkling cultural history . . . Its procession of nocturnal scenes is immersive, intoxicating and full of surprises' MIKE JAY, author of PSYCHONAUTS
'A jaunty, jam-packed history of big nights out that revels in spectacle and theatricality' EMMA WARREN, author of DANCE YOUR WAY HOME