{"product_id":"9781399617079","title":"Up All Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarely four centuries  ago, music, fashion, sex, architecture, art and booze first fused to  create what we now call nightlife. It happened, strangely enough, in  17th-century Japan, in a remote marshland outside the shogun's capital.  This den of hedonism and iniquity became a breeding ground for new ideas  - and while the venues have changed, nightlife has been at the frontier  of cultural innovation ever since. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUp All Night  is the story of the good times and the great ones. Who invented jazz?  What did 18th century Londoners do for entertainment? Why was Detroit  the birthplace of techno? Who built Las Vegas? And what, in our  increasingly online lives, are we missing when we pass up the chance of a  big night out? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoin party historian Imogen Willetts for a  guided tour of history's wildest nights out - piecing together  tantalising ephemera and foggy reminiscences from shogunate Japan to  noughties Hollywood, and every iconic scene in between.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sparkling cultural history . . . Its procession of nocturnal scenes is immersive, intoxicating and full  of surprises' MIKE JAY, author of \u003ci\u003ePSYCHONAUTS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026#38; Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57136563388789,"sku":"9781399617079","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781399617079.jpg?v=1778159259","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781399617079","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}