History of nightlife

What an interesting concept.A history of a people,told not through their daily travails and successive political upheavals,but via the changes in their nightly celebrations and unwindings.History is,in this telling, accompanied by a bottle of Malbec,dancing,and gossip.It's direction,the way people live,is determined on half-lit streets,in bars,and in smoky late-night restaurants.

This history is inscribed in songs,on menus,via half-remembered conversations,love affairs,drunken fights,and years of drug abuse..