Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190231026ISBN-10:190231025UPC:9780190231026Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, EthnicSize:10.22 x 7.09 x 0.93 inchesWeight:2.3832Product ID:SCEFC0K4QM
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 City's 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 York's central role in fueling the nationwide craze for folk music in postwar America. It involves the efforts of record company...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190231026ISBN-10:190231025UPC:9780190231026Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, EthnicSize:10.22 x 7.09 x 0.93 inchesWeight:2.3832Product ID:SCEFC0K4QM
Stephen Petrus is an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, where he is working on his second book, a political and cultural history of Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 60s. At the Museum of the City of New York, he curated the exhibition Folk City, on view until January 10th, 2016, and was co-author of the show's accompanying book, with historian Ronald D. Cohen....
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