Stephen Petrus, Ronald D Cohen

Folk City

New York and the American Folk Music Revival

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Produktbeschreibung

From Washington Square Park and the Gaslight Cafe 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1073g
• ISBN-13: 9780190231026
• ISBN-10: 0190231025
• Artikelnr.: 47864005

Autorenporträt

Stephen Petrus is an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow at the Museum of the City of New York, where he is the lead curator of Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival. He has published essays on twentieth-century American politics and culture and is working on a book on Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 1960s. Ronald D. Cohen is Emeritus Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana. He is the author of numerous books on the history of folk music, including Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (2002), Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997 (2003), Folk Music: The Basics (2006), Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States (2010), Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945 (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Origins of the Folk Music Revival in the 1940s
2. Making a Business Out of It
3. The Battles of Washington Square Park
4. The Village Scene in the Early 1960s
5. Folk Music and the Protest Tradition
6. The Many Lives of the Young Bob Dylan
Conclusion
Index