{"product_id":"up-all-night-a-world-history-of-nightlife","title":"Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eUp All Night\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gloriously overstuffed and delicious entertaining . . . a history full of brio and bluster and plenty of wonderful nocturnal stories.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This exemplary social history is engrossing and energising.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzz Mag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In her spectacular debut, historian Willets surveys 350 years of influential international nightlife scenes . . . Readers will relish this vivid and transportive night on the town.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This revelatory history of going out explains how centuries of visionaries, outcasts, rich, poor--anyone looking for a good time, really--sung and danced and lived and wrote so much of humanity's story under cover of darkness. It's the sort of history they don't teach in books, but now thankfully, that's no longer a problem.\"--\u003cb\u003eChris Payne, author of \u003ci\u003eWhere Are Your Boys Tonight?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From Edo period Japan to Downtown Manhattan in the 70s, \u003ci\u003eUp All Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a euphoric whirlwind of characters and incidents, not unlike a great night out. But it also does the serious and important work of considering what nightlife means today, when it's at a low ebb almost everywhere, and what it has always meant: liberation for those at the margins and an essential beat for us all.\"--\u003cb\u003eRoss Perlin, author of\u003ci\u003e Language City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'Going out' is a concept I've always taken for granted as a constant of human life, but this brilliantly researched, breathlessly told history proves the Beastie Boys right: You gotta fight for your right to party. Like an incredible night on the town, Willetts' narrative starts intriguingly and crackles more and more as it goes.\"--\u003cb\u003eChris DeVille, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuch Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What's the nightlife goss? It's all here babes! From witches in moonlight to 1980s East Village to Margate 2026, \u003ci\u003eUp All Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"--\u003cb\u003eAmy Zing, co-founder of queer club collective Sink The Pink\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003cb\u003eMichael Musto, legendary cultural critic and chronicler of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003cb\u003eEmma Warren, author of \u003ci\u003eDance Your Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003cb\u003eMike Jay, author of \u003ci\u003ePsychonauts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Meticulously researched and dangerously fun. \u003ci\u003eUp All Night \u003c\/i\u003eis so vivid and insightful, I needed a lie down afterwords.\"--\u003cb\u003eJodie Harsh, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Had to Be There\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1: Yoshiwara, Edo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2: The Pleasure Gardens, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3: Montmartre, Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4: New Orleans 1913 - Tangomania\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5: Weimar Berlin \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6: The Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7: The Jazz Age - Chicago, Paris and Shanghai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8: Post-War Opulence - Las Vegas and Havana\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9: Discotheques and the Underground in New York City\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10: DIY Nightclubs - New York, London and Los Angeles 1988 - The Second Summer of Love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11: Techno, Found Spaces and Ruinlust - Detroit, Berlin and Belgrade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12: Noughties Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePicture Credits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eText Permissions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImogen Willetts\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eUp All Night\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/11\/2026 (EAN 9780802167392, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780802167392, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496108392726,"sku":"9780802167392","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780802167392.jpg?v=1783053311","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/up-all-night-a-world-history-of-nightlife","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}