ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Folk City : New York and the American Folk Music Revival.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190231033
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Folk CityDDC classification:
  • 781.62/1307471
LOC classification:
  • ML3551.8.N49 -- .P487 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 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 -- ENDNOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- IMAGE CREDITS -- AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Summary: From Washington Square Park and Café Society 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

COVER -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- 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 -- ENDNOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- IMAGE CREDITS -- AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

From Washington Square Park and Café Society 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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.