Folk city
Subtitle: New York and the American folk music revival
By: Stephen Petrus, Ronald D. Cohen
Contributors: Cohen, Ronald D., 1940- author; Museum of the City of New York
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780190231026
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Folk music; History and criticism; Popular music; History
Other titles: New York and the American folk music revival
Description: 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.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name presented at the Museum of the City of New York, June-Nov., 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Peter Yarrow; title: Preface / John Heller; title: The heart of folk city; title: New York and the origins of the folk music revival; title: Making a business out of it; title: The battles of Washington Square Park; title: The Village scene in the early 1960s; title: Political activism and the folk music revival; title: Bob Dylan is talkin' New York; title: The evolution of the folk music revival in New York.