A report on Bob Dylan and Greenwich Village
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.
- Bob DylanVillage 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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Counterculture of the 1960s
3 linksAnti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s.
Anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s.
This embrace of experimentation is particularly notable in the works of popular musical acts such as the Beatles and Bob Dylan, as well as of New Hollywood filmmakers, whose works became far less restricted by censorship.
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
Joan Baez
3 linksAmerican singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.
American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.
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.
Folk rock
1 linksHybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.
Hybrid music genre that combines the elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.
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.
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.
Beat Generation
1 linksLiterary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Beat writers and artists flocked to Greenwich Village in New York City in the late 1950s because of low rent and the "small town" element of the scene.
The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll as a high art form, as evidenced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and other popular musicians influenced in the later fifties and sixties by Beat generation poets' and writers' works.
Suze Rotolo
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Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (November 20, 1943 – February 25, 2011), known as Suze Rotolo, was an American artist, and the girlfriend of Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1964.
In her book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York.
John Lennon
1 linksEnglish singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
Ono and Lennon moved to New York, to a flat on Bank Street, Greenwich Village.
In 1972, Bob Dylan wrote a letter to the INS defending Lennon, stating:
Dave Van Ronk
0 linksAmerican folk singer.
American folk singer.
An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".
Folk performers he befriended include Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Joni Mitchell.
The Clancy Brothers
0 linksInfluential Irish folk music group that developed initially as a part of the American folk music revival.
Influential Irish folk music group that developed initially as a part of the American folk music revival.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem significantly influenced the young Bob Dylan and other artists, including Christy Moore and Paul Brady.
Arriving in Greenwich Village in Manhattan in 1951, Tom and Paddy established themselves as successful Broadway and Off-Broadway actors.
Peter, Paul and Mary
0 linksAmerican folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by Bob Dylan, and covers of other folk musicians.
After rehearsing Yarrow, Stookey and Travers out of town in Boston and Miami, Grossman booked them into The Bitter End, a coffee house, nightclub and popular folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.
Richie Havens
0 linksAmerican singer-songwriter and guitarist.
American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
At age 20, Havens left his hometown Brooklyn, seeking artistic stimulation in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
After cutting two records for Douglas Records, he signed on with Bob Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, and landed a record deal with the Verve Folkways (later Verve Forecast) label.