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Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
Stephen Petrus
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Description for Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 150 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 262 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1068.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1067g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190231026
SKU
V9780190231026
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About Stephen Petrus
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
magnificent ... a rich tapestry.
Liz Thomson, fRoots
One of the strongest aspects of Folk City is that Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen are not unduly fixated on Dylan as the most famous of the Greenwich Village singers, restricting him to a finely inflected closing chapter. Instead the trace the emergence of the folk revival from informal ... Read more
Liz Thomson, fRoots
One of the strongest aspects of Folk City is that Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen are not unduly fixated on Dylan as the most famous of the Greenwich Village singers, restricting him to a finely inflected closing chapter. Instead the trace the emergence of the folk revival from informal ... Read more