History is made at night

'There was a hit song in the 1960s by the Lovin’ Spoonful called  Summer in the City  all about how the days were hot and gritty, everyo...

I was pretty excited to hear that Tim Lawrence  and Jeremy Gilbert have started a new podcast, Love is the Message . Tim is the great cultur...

'Once upon a time New York nightclubs catered to the aristocracy of the fabulous, to those with the looks, the style, or the connection...

The sounds Of the Harlem night Drop one by one into stillness. The last player-piano is closed. The last victrola ceases with t...

Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least...

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on this day, 19th May 1925. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by him with Alex Haley, was p...

Mark is 38 years old and works as an Advertising Executive in New York, following an odyssey from Tamworth and London via Sheffield. Can ...

Luc Sante is the 23rd person to complete the Dancing Questionnaire. Luc has written extensively on New York cultural history, and much mor...

This article 'Retort Goes to a Party' by Holley Cantine was originally published in the Autumn 1951 issue of Retort, a journal of a...

The Trammps' disco classic The Night the Lights Went Out (1977) commemorates an actual historical event in that year - the New York bla...

'After 1920 women who occasionally wore men's clothing and those who passed as men began to socialize more openly in cafes and night...

Enjoyed Black Swan, a whole movie about dancing - what's not to like? If you've been living in a cave for the last month you might...

Earlier this year I went to the Eadweard Muybridge photography exhibition at Tate Britain. Of particular interest to me are his studies of d...

When Walter Hill's film The Warriors was released in 1979, there were fears that it would lead to an explosion of gang related violenc...

From Miami Herald, 14 October 2010: 'Raymond Castro, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, died in his hometown of...

From the chapter on Rhythm in Elias Canetti's Masse und Macht (1960), translated as ' Crowds and Power' : 'Rhythm is ori...

'The dust came first. Donald Maitland noticed it as he rode back in the taxi from London Airport, after waiting a fruitless forty-eight ...

In my street in New Cross last week, somebody left a pile of books outside for passers-by to help themselves to. So it came to pass that ove...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), lived to see many May Days as a key figure in the US workers movement for more than 50 years. In 1939, ...

I haven't got hold of a copy of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols yet, but there's a very inte...