<p>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 …</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>... the Tango, the Can-Can: dances that got you arrested</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how bourgeois French ‘slummers’ found a taste of danger</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… the heady allure in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as an escape from Victorian squalor</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… how Anita Berber’s chloroform ballet shocked and delighted Weimar Berlin</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… when dancing was a mating ritual and the impact of Dating Apps&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… democracy on the dancefloor: the unrepeatable mix of punters and celebrities at Studio 54</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>… and how the invention of the electric light got people going out and the iPhone made them stay home</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Order ‘Up All Night’ here:</strong> <a href="https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/imogen-willetts/up-all-night/9781399617093/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/imogen-willetts/up-all-night/9781399617093/</a></p><br><p><strong>Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: </strong><a href="https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>