Day Three: August 6

Port and Youth Culture:
We had an interesting talk about the earliest history of occupied history of New York City and how the Dutch, Native American, and eventually the millions of immigrants that would settle in New York created the first youth culture. The illustration "Dancing for eels" shows an African American dancing while two Bowery Irish boys were watching. They are at the Catherine Market while a group of people watched. This is supposed to be the first documentation of youth culture: tap dance, a combination of the Irish jig and African tribal dance.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/popmusic/excerpts/raisecaine1.html