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 producers and executives, club owners,
concert promoters, festival organizers, musicologists, agents and
managers, editors and writers - and, of course, musicians and audiences.
In Folk City, authors Stephen Petrus and Ron Cohen
capture the exuberance of the times and introduce readers to a host of
characters who brought a new style to the biggest audience in the
history of popular music. Among the savvy New York entrepreneurs
committed to promoting folk music were Izzy
Young of the Folklore
Center, Mike Porco of Gerde's Folk City, and John Hammond of Columbia
Records. While these and other businessmen developed commercial networks
for musicians, the performance venues provided the artists space to
test their mettle. The authors portray Village coffee houses not
simply
as lively venues but as incubators of a burgeoning counterculture,
where artists from diverse backgrounds honed their performance
techniques and challenged social conventions. Accessible and engaging,
fresh and provocative, rich in anecdotes and primary sources, Folk City is lavishly
illustrated with images collected for the accompanying major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York in 2015.
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