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“WOULD YOU LIKE BUTTER OR SOUR CREAM ON YOUR POTATO?”: JAZZ, STEAK, AND SUBURBIA | JAZZ LIVES

Some experiential sociology follows, subjective, hardly comprehensive. In the Twenties, hot music, dancing, and illicit liquor were happily linked. Speakeasies may have served food as a cover, just as restaurants may have offered liquor sub rosa during Prohibition. But the only evidence of music accompanied by food I have is Louis, thirty years after the…