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Film, Video Coffeehouses: Folk Music, Culture & Counterculture

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Title

  • Coffeehouses: Folk Music, Culture & Counterculture

Summary

  • Since the 1950s, the history of the American folk music revival has been intertwined with the rise of coffeehouses and coffeehouse culture. This forum brings together notable coffeehouse producer Betsy Siggins from Boston's legendary Club 47, Caffe Lena History Project Founder and Producer Jocelyn Arem, filmmaker and documentarian Todd Kwait, and Baltimore-based performer and "open mic" organizer Rob Hinkal to explore folk music coffeehouses, both then and now. They discuss the important role these distinctive venues played in the development, maintenance, and expansion of American folk music; how coffeehouses introduced grass-roots rural performers to urban Americans; coffeehouses' contributions to the rise of singer-songwriters; and how coffeehouse "folk clubs" created a circuit of establishments that supported the rise of contemporary American folk music.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-04-11.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry
  • -  Coffee, Music, Culture

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Todd Kwait, Rob Hinkal, Jocelyn Arem, Betsy Siggins.
  • -  Recorded on 2014-04-11.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689377

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Coffeehouses: Folk Music, Culture & Counterculture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-11, 2014. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689377/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2014) Coffeehouses: Folk Music, Culture & Counterculture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-11. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689377/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Coffeehouses: Folk Music, Culture & Counterculture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-11, 2014. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689377/>.