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Folk City - New York and the American Folk Music Revival (Hardcover)
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Folk City - New York and the American Folk Music Revival (Hardcover)
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From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Cafe (c) 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 famous folk music revival of the 1950s and '60s.
Folk City, by Stephen Petrus and Ronald Cohen, explores New York's
central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in
postwar America. The musical form blossomed particularly in
Greenwich Village, the famed neighborhood that had long nurtured
unconventional art, progressive politics, and countercultural
trends. But the phenomenon was not inevitable. After all, folk
music was largely rural in origins, the songs of peasants in the
Old World and then of sailors, cowboys, lumberjacks, coal miners,
chain gangs, and others across the United States. How it became
urban and modern is a fascinating story, one that involves the
efforts of record company producers and executives, club owners,
concert promoters, festival organizers, musicologists, agents and
managers, editors and writers-not to mention the musicians and
their audiences. In this account, Petrus and 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 spaces 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 convention in the era of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson.
Accessible and engaging, fresh and provocative, rich in anecdotes,
interviews, excerpts from memoirs, biographical sidebars, 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.
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