An edition of Folk city
(2015)
Folk city
New York and the American folk music revival
by Stephen Petrus
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From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records, New York City's cultural, artistic, and commercial assets helped to shape a distinctively urban breeding ground for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. Folk city explores New York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America.
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Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
2015, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0190231033 9780190231033
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Peter Yarrow
Preface / John Heller
The heart of folk city
New York and the origins of the folk music revival
Making a business out of it
The battles of Washington Square Park
The Village scene in the early 1960s
Political activism and the folk music revival
Bob Dylan is talkin' New York
The evolution of the folk music revival in New York.
Edition Notes
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented at the Museum of the City of New York, June-Nov., 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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