{"id":2076,"date":"2017-10-16T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T18:44:20","slug":"folk-music-in-greenwich-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/2017\/10\/16\/folk-music-in-greenwich-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk Music In Greenwich Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2077\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download-150x95.png 150w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download-474x300.png 474w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/download.png 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The artifact I found was a poster advertising for a folk and blues music festival that took place on January 26th of 1952. This happened during what we now refer to as the American folk music revival. The festival took place at a concert hall called Loew\u2019s Sheridan, located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The location of this event is significant. Many artists central to the Beat Generation, an important American literary movement, lived in Greenwich Village in the 50s and 60s. As the Beat movement expanded, other counter cultural movements, such as Hippies, adopted similar mentalities. Greenwich Village later became a major hub for folk musicians during the 60s, where many major acts got started in the music club scene. Fun Fact: The Greenwich Village folk music scene in the 60s is the primary subject of the Cohen Brother\u2019s film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside Llewyn Davis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll as a high art form, as evidenced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and other popular musicians influenced in the late fifties and sixties by Beat generation poets&#8217; and writers&#8217; works,&#8221; shows the Beat Movement&#8217;s pervasive effect on Western culture.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0~Allen Ginsberg<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/6274325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2078 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/6274325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/6274325.jpg 250w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/americanmusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2017\/10\/6274325-150x136.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Smoking Poets: Michael McClure, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The festival contained an unbelievable lineup, containing some of the most important musicians to the folk revival movement. Included were Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYrK464nIeY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This festival was organized by our familiar friend, Alan Lomax. The festival also featured narration by Alan Lomax, probably to provide context for these performances. It is often stated that without Lomax, we would have no knowledge of acts from this lineup. Lomax is credited for discovering such musicians giving them opportunities for performances to reach a larger audience, such as this one. One man who saw the importance of Alan Lomax, Bob Dylan, had this to say about him: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;There is a distinguished gentlemen here who came \u2026 I want to introduce him \u2013 named Alan Lomax. I don\u2019t know if many of you have heard of him [Audience applause.] Yes, he\u2019s here, he\u2019s made a trip out to see me. I used to know him years ago. I learned a lot there and Alan \u2026 Alan was one of those who unlocked the secrets of this kind of music. So if we\u2019ve got anybody to thank, it\u2019s Alan. Thanks, Alan.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0~Bob Dylan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Arcangelo,\u00a0Gideon. &#8220;Alan Lomax and The Big Story Of Song.&#8221; <em>Album Liner Notes.\u00a0<\/em>Accessed October 16, 2017.\u00a0http:\/\/aln2.albumlinernotes.com\/Popular_Songbook.html<\/p>\n<div class=\"row bibliography-item-info\">\n<div id=\"copy-target-503373010\" class=\"bibliography-item-copy-text content col-md-12\">&#8220;Guthrie, Woody with Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Pete Seeger at Loew&#8217;s Sheridan, New York, New York.&#8221; Http:\/\/www.amdigital.co.uk\/. Accessed October 16, 2017. http:\/\/www.rockandroll.amdigital.co.uk.ezproxy.stolaf.edu\/Search\/DocumentDetailsSearch.aspx?documentid=1065366&amp;prevPos=1065366&amp;vpath=searchresults&amp;pi=1.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row bibliography-item-actions\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Folk Music and the Beatniks.&#8221; Accessed October 16, 2017.\u00a0https:\/\/folkmusicandthebeatniks.weebly.com\/<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artifact I found was a poster advertising for a folk and blues music festival that took place on January 26th of 1952. This happened during what we now refer to as the American folk music revival. 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