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Author |
: Stephen Petrus |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190231026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190231025 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Folk City by : Stephen Petrus
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.
Author |
: Stephen Petrus |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2015-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190231033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190231033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Folk City by : Stephen Petrus
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.
Author |
: Sofia Khvoshchinskaya |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2017-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231544504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231544502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis City Folk and Country Folk by : Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
“This scathingly funny comedy of manners” by the rediscovered female Russian novelist “will deeply satisfy fans of 19th-century Russian literature” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of the aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites of 1860s Russia. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves a tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs. Upending Russian literary clichés of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a common-sense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. Throwing off the imposed sense of duty toward their "betters", these two women ultimately triumph over the urbanites' financial, amorous, and matrimonial machinations. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and her writer sisters closely mirror Britain's Brontës, yet Khvoshchinskaya's work contains more of Jane Austen's wit and social repartee, as well as an intellectual engagement reminiscent of Elizabeth Gaskell's condition-of-England novels. Written by a woman under a male pseudonym, this exploration of gender dynamics in post-emancipation Russian offers a new and vital point of comparison with the better-known classics of nineteenth-century world literature.
Author |
: Daniel J. Walkowitz |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2013-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479890354 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479890359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis City Folk by : Daniel J. Walkowitz
This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition and rehearsed its steps. In City Folk, Daniel J. Walkowitz argues that the history of country and folk dancing in America is deeply intermeshed with that of political liberalism and the ‘old left.’ He situates folk dancing within surprisingly diverse contexts, from progressive era reform, and playground and school movements, to the changes in consumer culture, and the project of a modernizing, cosmopolitan middle class society. Tracing the spread of folk dancing, with particular emphases on English Country Dance, International Folk Dance, and Contra, Walkowitz connects the history of folk dance to social and international political influences in America. Through archival research, oral histories, and ethnography of dance communities, City Folk allows dancers and dancing bodies to speak. From the norms of the first half of the century, marked strongly by Anglo-Saxon traditions, to the Cold War nationalism of the post-war era, and finally on to the counterculture movements of the 1970s, City Folk injects the riveting history of folk dance in the middle of the story of modern America.
Author |
: Wesley Yang |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2018-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393652659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393652653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by : Wesley Yang
“Fierce and refreshing.”— Carlos Lozada, Washington Post Named a notable book of the year by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post, and one of the best books of the year by Spectator and Publishers Weekly, The Souls of Yellow Folk is the powerful debut from one of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation. Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the polite lies that bore us all.
Author |
: Steve Forbert |
Publisher |
: Pfp Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2018-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0997024879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780997024876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Big City Cat by : Steve Forbert
Steve Forbert carved out a niche in New York City's vibrant club scene, playing now-iconic venues like Gerde's Folk City and CBGB's during a time when rootsy rock was fading out and New Wave and punk acts were moving in. His critically acclaimed first album, Alive on Arrival, captured that heady period. Forbert's next, Jackrabbit Slim, introduced the hit "Romeo's Tune. Since then he's produced 20 studio albums. Keith Urban, Rosanne Cash, and Marty Stuart, among others, have recorded his songs and Forbert's tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time, was nominated for a Grammy. Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock features photos from Forbert's personal collection. His stories are interspersed with early journal entries from New York City as well as reminiscences from the people around him--including former manager Danny Fields and E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent, who produced three of Forbert's albums. It's a tale of a talented survivor in a challenging and changing music industry.
Author |
: Ray Allen |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2010-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252077470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252077474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gone to the Country by : Ray Allen
Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley, the Ramblers introduced the regional styles of southern ballads, blues, string bands, and bluegrass to northerners yearning for a sound and an experience not found in mainstream music. Ray Allen interweaves biography, history, and music criticism to follow the band from its New York roots to their involvement with the commercial folk music boom. Allen details their struggle to establish themselves amid critical debates about traditionalism brought on by their brand of folk revivalism. He explores how the Ramblers ascribed notions of cultural authenticity to certain musical practices and performers and how the trio served as a link between southern folk music and northern urban audiences who had little previous exposure to rural roots styles. Highlighting the role of tradition in the social upheaval of mid-century America, Gone to the Country draws on extensive interviews and personal correspondence with band members and digs deep into the Ramblers' rich trove of recordings.
Author |
: James Borchert |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2023-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252054907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252054903 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alley Life in Washington by : James Borchert
Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.
Author |
: Sara Cohen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2017-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351160186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351160184 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles by : Sara Cohen
How is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in Liverpool, how did they come to be categorized as part of Liverpool culture and identity and used to develop and promote the city, and how have connections between the Beatles and Liverpool been forged and contested? This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. Firstly, it examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s. Secondly, and in turn, it considers the specificity of popular music culture and the many diverse ways in which it influences city life and informs the way that the city is thought about, valued and experienced. Cohen highlights popular music's unique role and significance in the making of cities, and illustrates how de-industrialization encouraged efforts to connect popular music to the city, to categorize, claim and promote it as local culture, and harness and mobilize it as a local resource. In doing so, she adopts an approach that recognizes music as a social and symbolic practice encompassing a diversity of roles and characteristics: music as a culture or way of life distinguished by social and ideological conventions; music as sound; speech and discourse about music; and music as a commodity and industry.
Author |
: K.M. Lucchese |
Publisher |
: Church Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2008-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0819222895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780819222893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Folk Like Me by : K.M. Lucchese
The lives of the saints are either too grisly for little kids or too saccharine for older ones. But this collection appeals to both groups with a combination of gentle humor and frankness – battle-tested at the author’s weekly chapel services at the school where she teaches. It’s organized into two full school years, with each saint’s story falling on or near his or her special day so that each story can be a springboard to a creative seasonal teaching unit or small festival. Saints represent a wide variety of ethnic and geographic backgrounds.