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Author : Stephen Petrus, Ronald D. Cohen

Date : 2015-07-06

Page : 321

Rating : 4.5

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Folk City New York and the American Folk Music Revival  ~ From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Caf to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records New York Citys 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 New York and the American Folk Music Revival  ~ How New York City and specifically Greenwich Village came to be at the epicenter of an American folk music revival between 1950 and 1965 is the subject of Stephen Petrus and Ronald D Cohen’s 
Folk City New York and the American Folk Music Revival  ~ Stephen Petrus is an Andrew W Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow at the Museum of the City of New York where he will curate Folk City New York and the American Folk Music Revival Ronald D 
Folk City New York and the American Folk Music Revival  ~ Journal of Popular Music Studies Petrus and Cohens Folk City offers a fascinating and highly readable account of the American folk music revival which they effectively argue came about as an extension of New York Citys unique cultural sceneryThe Gotham Center for New York City History
Folk City New York and the American Folk Music Revival ~ If you’re old enough to remember the scene the Folk City exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York might bring you back to the 1960s clubs of Greenwich Village with its dim lighting concert bills on the walls and steady hum of guitar and passionate harmonies But the show offers up historyRead More
American folk music revival  Wikipedia ~ Ethnic folk music from other countries also had a boom during the American folk revival The most successful ethnic performers of the revival were the Greenwich Village folksingers The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem whom Billboard Magazine listed as the eleventh bestselling folk musicians in the United States
Folk City  Stephen Petrus Ronald D Cohen  Oxford  ~ From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records New York Citys 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 Yorks central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America
Project MUSE  Folk City New York and the American Folk  ~ The companion volume to an exhibit of the same name which ran at the Museum of the City of New York between 17 June and 29 November 2015 Folk City tells the story of the American folk revival of the midtwentieth century as it happened in New York City The book’s status as a companion volume is key to understanding its occasionally limited perspective as well as its approach to folk music 
Folk City  Museum of the City of New York ~ New York and the Folk Music Revival In the 1950s and 1960s folk music blossomed in New York City especially in Greenwich Village where clubs and coffee houses showcased singers like Pete Seeger and Odetta and nurtured a generation of newcomers including Bob Dylan Judy Collins Dave Van Ronk Ramblin Jack Elliott and Peter Paul and Mary
Folk City New York and the American Folk Music Revival  ~ From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Café to WNYC Radio and Folkways Records New York Citys 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 Yorks central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America