Everybody's doin' it: sex, music, and dance in New York, 1840-1917

Introduction --

Libertines, blackface minstrels, and 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 --

Epilogue: reflections.