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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.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2015Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780190231033
- Other · English · 2015320 pages · 9780190231026
Folk musicHistory and criticismPopular musicHistoryFolk music, history and criticismMusic, americanMUSIC / History & Criticism