{"product_id":"up-all-night-a-world-history-of-nightlife-9780802167392","title":"Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the glamorous depravity of Studio 54 to the underground cabarets of Weimar Berlin, from Georgian London's gaudy pleasure gardens to the birth of techno in post-industrial Detroit, a brilliantly researched history charting four centuries of nightlife, showing the fascinating evolution of how humans have gone out after dark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNightlife, as defined by party historian Imogen Willetts, is \"a commercial and secular environment designed to offer a variety of pleasures at night.\" \u003ci\u003eUp All Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUp All Night \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802167392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.40d","brand":"Imogen Willetts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537461276853,"sku":"9780802167392","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_244c9651-0c6b-4b58-84f7-ae785651a535.jpg?v=1779169656","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/up-all-night-a-world-history-of-nightlife-9780802167392","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}