Join us for an evening talk with author Dale Cockrell, about his book, Everybody's Doin' it.

Everybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. Whether coming from a single piano player or a small band, live music was a nightly feature in New York's spirited dives, where men and women, often black and white, mingled freely―to the horror of the elite. Musicologist Dale Cockrell, a Lincoln resident, recreates this ephemeral underground world by mining tabloids, newspapers, court records of police busts, lurid exposés, journals, and the reports of undercover detectives working for social-reform organizations, who were sent in to gather evidence against such low-life places.

Jan 25, 2025, 12 to 2 PM

Jan 26, 2025, 9:30 to 10:30 AM

Jan 26, 2025, 1 to 4 PM