LEADER 04769nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910452146703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-3760-8 010 $a1-283-23320-7 010 $a9786613233202 010 $a0-8131-7269-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479902 035 $a(EBL)792187 035 $a(OCoLC)182523081 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267124 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11254400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267124 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10334270 035 $a(PQKB)10603062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC792187 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13781 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL792187 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495356 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323320 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479902 100 $a20070628d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution$b[electronic resource] /$fEve Golden 210 $aLexington, Ky. $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8131-2459-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [298]-301) and index. 327 $aFront cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty; 2. About Town; 3. Only Forty-five Minutes from Broadway?; 4. ""We would be much happier if we just relaxed and enjoyed school life""; 5. ""I could tell by looking at him that he was not my cup of tea""; 6. Zowie, ""the Monarch of Mystery""; 7. ""They liked to test out their guns""; 8. Enfin . . . une Revue; 9. ""I saw the fat years ahead""; 10. Everybody's Doing It; 11. ""Two adolescent palm trees""; 12. ""Gowns are more or less a business with me"" 327 $a13. ""The best dancing music in the world""14. ""More like a pair of schoolchildren""; 15. ""Syncopation rules the nation""; 16. ""The Most Talked About House in New York""; 17. ""Dancing with Vernon was as easy as swimming with water wings""; 18. ""The spirit of success . . . oozes from these two young people""; 19. ""The Castles Are Coming! Hooray! Hooray!""; 20. ""We were both miserable on those vaudeville tours""; 21. ""Their enthusiastic followers never . . . go to bed at all""; 22. ""Mrs. Castle is exhausted""; 23. ""Castles in the subway,/Castles in the 'L'"" 327 $a24. ""Oh, give me a gun and let me run to fight the foreign foe""25. ""When I get old I shall be able to tell our children all about the Great War""; 26. ""Kiss all the pets for me, dear""; 27. ""A super motion picture of . . . epoch-making magnificence""; 28. ""He was out to see the Kaiser defeated""; 29. ""An hour's pleasant diversion""; 30. I Love My Wife, but Oh, You Kid!; 31. ""Never in my life have I been subjected to such humiliation""; 32. ""His plane dove straight into the ground""; 33. ""Death is nothing to me, sweetheart"" 327 $a34. ""Robert was sweet, sympathetic, and besides he did all of my bidding""35. ""A well-known dancing dame""; 36. ""Poor Irene Castle. She certainly isn't what she used to be""; 37. ""Jazz, jazz, jazz! . . . The paradings of savages""; 38. ""To Chicago high society, she was a chorus girl""; 39. Orphans of the Storm; 40. ""What do you do for an encore to what they had?""; 41. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; 42. ""Isn't old age awful!""; Appendix: Stage and Film Appearances of Vernon and Irene Castle; Notes; Bibliography; Index; PHOTO INSERT 330 $aVernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights advocates decades before it became a public issue. Irene was also a fashion innovator, bobbing her hair ten years before the flapper look of the 1920's became popular. From their marriage in 1911 until 1916, the Castles were the most famous and influential dance team in the world. Their dancing 606 $aDancers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBallroom dancing$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRagtime music$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDancers 615 0$aBallroom dancing$xHistory. 615 0$aRagtime music$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a792.8/0280922 676 $aB 700 $aGolden$b Eve$01050400 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452146703321 996 $aVernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution$92480142 997 $aUNINA