Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
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1950s folk revival
1960s American music
1960s music counterculture
20th-century music history
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acoustic music tradition
American folk music history
American music heritage
American popular culture history
American roots music
Author_Eric Von Schmidt
Author_Jim Rooney
Bob Dylan early career
Bob Dylan folk beginnings
Cambridge folk scene
Cambridge Massachusetts music scene
Cambridge music venues
Cambridge musical history
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early American folk recordings
early career of Joan Baez
electric folk rock
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folk and blues crossover
folk and electric fusion
folk clubs and gatherings
folk festival history
folk music archives
folk music community Cambridge
folk music documentation
folk music enthusiasts
folk music legacy
folk music nostalgia
folk music preservation
folk music revivalists
folk music storytelling
folk revival culture
folk singer interviews
folk song interpretation
grassroots music movements
Harvard Square coffeehouse performances
historic folk music photographs
historical folk photographs
iconic folk performers
influential folk musicians
Joan Baez biography
live folk performance culture
music community oral histories
musical activism in the 1960s
rediscovery of American folk
traditional folk music revival
urban blues influence
urban music subcultures
Product details
- ISBN 9780870239250
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 207 x 272mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1994
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book presents a lively account of the Cambridge folk music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Long out of print, ""Baby, Let Me Follow You Down"" is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to re-create the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the rediscovery of American folk music.Compiled by two musicians who were active participants in the Cambridge folk scene, the volume documents a special time in United States culture when the honesty and vitality of traditional folk music were combined with the raw power of urban blues and the high energy of electric rock and roll to create a new American popular music.
ERIC VON SCHMIDT, who died in 2007, was a singer-songwriter, painter, and graphic artist. He recorded seven solo albums and was the author of four children's books. Author of Bossmen: Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters, JIM ROONEY is a music producer who has worked with Nanci Griffith, John Prine, Iris De Ment, Tom Paxton, Hal Ketchum, and others. In the early 1960s he managed the legendary Club 47 in Cambridge and was a director and talent coordinator of the Newport Folk Festival.
