A report on Folk rock, Bob Dylan and Greenwich Village

Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt (center), at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party.

Dylan at Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in June 2010

Bob Dylan was the most influential of all the urban folk-protest songwriters.

The Zimmerman family home in Hibbing, Minnesota

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

Folk rock musicians Simon & Garfunkel performing in Dublin

Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", August 28, 1963

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Simon Nicol and Ric Sanders of Fairport Convention performing at Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2005

Bobby Dylan, as the college yearbook lists him: St. Lawrence University, upstate New York, November 1963

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Merle Haggard and others influenced the sound of artists such as Bob Dylan, Ian and Sylvia, and the Byrds who adopted the sound of country music in the late 1960s.

The cinéma vérité documentary Dont Look Back (1967) follows Dylan on his 1965 tour of England. An early music video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was used as the film's opening segment.

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Bob Dylan and the Band commenced their 1974 tour in Chicago on January 3.

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Bob Dylan with Allen Ginsberg on the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. Photo: Elsa Dorfman

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

Dylan performing in the De Kuip Stadium, Rotterdam, June 23, 1978

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

Dylan performs during the 1996 Lida Festival in Stockholm

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Bob Dylan performs at Air Canada Centre, Toronto, November 7, 2006

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Dylan and the Obamas at the White House, after a performance celebrating music from the civil rights movement (February 9, 2010)

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Dylan performing at Finsbury Park, London, June 18, 2011

President Obama presents Dylan with a Medal of Freedom, May 2012

Dylan mural in Minneapolis by Eduardo Kobra

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their pre-existing folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community.

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While this urban folk revival flourished in many cities, New York City, with its burgeoning Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene and population of topical folk singers, was widely regarded as the centre of the movement.

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From February 1961, Dylan played at clubs around Greenwich Village, befriending and picking up material from folk singers there, including Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Odetta, the New Lost City Ramblers and Irish musicians the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

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In the latter half of 1964 and into 1965, Dylan moved from folk songwriter to folk-rock pop-music star.

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Village resident and cultural icon Bob Dylan by the mid-60s had become one of the world's foremost popular songwriters, and often developments in Greenwich Village would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco and elsewhere, and vice versa.

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Joan Baez

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American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.

Baez playing at the March on Washington in August 1963

Bob Dylan, Baez, and Carlos Santana, performing in 1984

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2005 at Golden Gate Park

Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

Baez with Bob Dylan at the civil rights March on Washington, 1963

Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music.

She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts.

Baez first met Dylan in April 1961 at Gerde's Folk City in New York City's Greenwich Village.