When we found sheet music for an Irving Berlin song entered as evidence in a
Newport News obscenity trial in 1912, we had to know more. Check out
today’s blog to hear the racy song that had the city in a tizzy, see one of
the “indecent” dances that was sweeping the nation, and read the story of
one Virginia city’s reaction to both.
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
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