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100 1 Petrus, Stephen,|eauthor.
245 10 Folk city :|bNew York and the American folk music revival
/|cStephen Petrus, Ronald D. Cohen.
264 1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2015]
300 320 pages :|billustrations ;|c27 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent.
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia.
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 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.
520 "From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Caf©♭ 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. It involves the efforts of
record company producers and executives, club owners,
concert promoters, festival organizers, musicologists,
agents and managers, editors and writers - and, of course,
musicians and audiences. In Folk city, authors Stephen
Petrus and Ron Cohen capture the exuberance of the times
and introduce readers to a host of characters who brought
a new style to the biggest audience in the history of
popular music. Among the savvy New York entrepreneurs
committed to promoting folk music were Izzy Young of the
Folklore Center, Mike Porco of Gerde's Folk City, and John
Hammond of Columbia Records. While these and other
businessmen developed commercial networks for musicians,
the performance venues provided the artists space to test
their mettle. The authors portray Village coffee houses
not simply as lively venues but as incubators of a
burgeoning counterculture, where artists from diverse
backgrounds honed their performance techniques and
challenged social conventions. Accessible and engaging,
fresh and provocative, rich in anecdotes and primary
sources, Folk city is lavishly illustrated with images
collected for the accompanying major exhibition at the
Museum of the City of New York in 2015"--|cProvided by
publisher.
650 0 Folk music|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory and
criticism.
655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411635.
700 1 Cohen, Ronald D.,|d1940-|eauthor.
907 .b7652176x|b04-12-16|c10-02-15
910 RDA ENRICHED
910 ybp
910 Backstage
910 Hathi Trust report SPM
910 BrownU
996 |uhttp://library.brown.edu/bookplates/
fund.php?account=050121|zPurchased on the H. Anthony
Ittleson Family Library Fund in Ethnomusicology
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