Steppin' Out

Illustrations and Table
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: A Victorian World
1. Victorian Culture and Amusements
Part Two: Breaking the Bonds
2. After the Ball: Hotels and Lobster Palaces, 1893-1912
3. Women Out of Control: Critics of the New Amusements
Part Three: The Cabaret and the Decline of Formalism
4. Action Environment: The Informal Structure of the Cabaret
5. Everybody's Doin' It: Irene and Vernon Castle and the Pre-World War I Dance Craze
6. Some of These Days: Sophie Tucker, the Friendly Entertainer
7. Broadway Babies: Glorifying the American Girl, 1915-1922
Part Four: The Fragmentation and Flowering of American Culture
8. Into the Jazz Age
Bibliographical Essay
Name Index
Index of Cabarets, Hotels and Theatres
Subject Index