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Broonzy, Big Bill
Browne, Jackson
Bruce, Lenny
Brute Force Jazz Band
Buffalo Bill
Bumble Bee Slim
Burdon, Eric
Burnett, Silvia
Burns, Jimmy
Burns, Robert
Busking
Butterfield, Paul
Byrds
Caen, Herb
Café Bizarre
Café Wha?(notes)
Café Yana
Caffé Lena
“Cake Walking Blues from Home,”
Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Candyman,”
Cantine, Holly(n)
Caravan
magazine
Caricature coffeehouse
Carlo Tresca Club
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carnegie Recital Hall
Carter, Dorothy
Chamber Society of Lower Basin Street
Chandler, Len
Charles, Ray
Charters, Ann
Charters, Sam
Chess
Cheyenne
Chicago
Chicago Defender
“Chicken Is Nice,”
“Chimes of Trinity, The,” and “Chimes of Freedom,”
Chordettes
Chords
Christian, Charlie
Civil Rights Movement
Claiborne, Bob
Clancy Brothers
Clarence Williams and His Blue Five.
See also
Williams, Clarence
Classical music
Clayborn, Reverend Edward
Clayton, Paul
recordings of
Clouds
(album)
“Clouds (from Both Sides Now),”
Club
“Cocaine Blues,”
Coffeehouses
battles with city
Cohen, Dave
Cohen, John
Cohen, Leonard
Cohen, Mike
Cold War
Collins, Judy
Coltrane, John
“Come Back Baby,”
Comedians
Commons coffeehouse
Communist Party
as arm of Soviet foreign policy
Competitiveness
Concerts
Condit, Tom
Condon, Eddie
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
“Cool Water,”
Cooper, Clarence
Coots, Lionel
Copyright laws
CORE.
See
Congress of Racial Equality
Corso, Gregory
Cosby, Bill
Country Blues, The
(Charters)
Country music
Courlander, Harold
Covers (interpretations as)
Cox, Baby
CP.
See
Communist Party
Craig, Gary
“Crazy Blues,”
Creole Jazz Band
Critics
Crosby, Bing
Crowley, Aleister
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Culture shock
Culture wars
Currency scam
Daily Worker
Dalai Lama
Dalton, Karen
Darling, Erik
Darling Corey
(recording)
Dave Van Ronk: Folksinger
(recording)
Davis, Miles
Davis, Reverend Gary
Debs, Eugene V.
Delattre, Pierre
Democratic Party
Denitch, Bogdan
Depression era
Destiné, Jean Léon
Dexedrine
Dietrich, Marlene
“Dink’s Song,”
Diogenes Club
D’Lugoff, Art
Dobkin, Alix
Dobro playing
Dolgoff, Sam and Esther
Donegan, Lonnie
Donne, John
Donner Pass
“Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me,”
“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,”
Dowland, John
Drinking alcohol
Drugs.
See also
Marijuana
Drums
Duchamp, Marcel
Dumontet, Roland
“Duncan and Brady,”
Dupree, Champion Jack
Durruti, Buenaventura
Dyer-Bennett, Richard
Dylan, Bob
biography of
and electric guitars
and new song movement
and politics
and reading poetry
and Woody Guthrie
Ear training
Eastern Europe
East Village/East Side
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Electronic music.
See also
Rock ’n’ roll
Ellington, Dick
Ellington, Duke
Elliott, Jack
Ellison, Harlan
Employment (non-musical).
See also
Van Ronk, Dave, with merchant marine
English, Logan
English harness dancing
Eric Burdon and the Animals
Estes, Sleepy John
“Ethics and the Folksinger” (Van Ronk)
Even Dozen Jug Band
Exploitation
Fabian
Faier, Billy
Fairbanks, Doug, Jr.
Fanarchists
Farmers
Fat Black Pussycat coffeehouse
Fats Domino
Faust, Luke
FBI
Fehling, Conrad
Feliciano, Jose
Festival in Haiti,
(recording)
“Fidgety Feet,”
Fields, Gracie
Fifth Peg
Figaro coffeehouse
Fire Department
Fireside Book of Folk Songs, The
Fisher, Eddie
Five Spot
Fo’c’sle Songs and Chanties
(recording)
Folk City.
See
Gerda’s Folk City
Folklore Center
Folk music
and beatniks
and bel canto
cabaret folksingers
coffeehouse folksingers
competitiveness in
first coffeehouse to feature
folk music boom/Folk Scare
folk revival
historical writing about
meaning of “folksinger,”
and nonpoliticals and anti-Communist leftists
for political ends.
See also
Politics, as overlapping folk scene
as process
public performance spaces for
and topical songs
and traveling musicians
urban folksingers
as varied
Folksingers Guild
end of
Food
Foster, Al
Foster, Pat
Four Aces
Fox, Richie
France
“Frankie and Johnny,”
“Frankie’s Blues,”
Free love
Freeman, Eddie
“Freight Train,”
Freudenthal, Chuck
Friedberger, Pete
Frueh, Danny
Fry, Harry
Fugs
Fuller, Jesse
Gambling
Gardyloo
(fanzine)
Garfunkel, Artie
Gaslight Café
poetry readings at
“Gaslight Rag,”
Gate of Horn
Gavin, Jimmy
Geer, Will
George Lefty
Gerda’s Folk City
Geremia, George
Gerlach, Fred
Germany
Ghettos
“Ghost Riders in the Sky,”
Gibbon, Johnny
Gibson, Bob
Gigs
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gilpin, Dick
Ginsberg, Allen
Glaser, Gina
Glaser, Lenny
Glazer, Joe
Godfrey, Arthur
Golden Gate Bridge
Goldkette, Jean
Goldman, Emma
Goldsmith, Pete
Goldstein, Kenny
“Goodbye, Old Paint’m Leaving Cheyenne,” 106
Gooding, Cynthia
Goodman, Benny
Gordon, Max
Gorky, Arshile
Gospel music
Graham, Al
Grant, Coot
Green, Freddie
Greenbriar Boys
Greenhaus, Dick and Kiki
Greenhill, David
Greenwich Village
block between Bleecker and 3rd Street
Spring Street parties in
See also
Washington Square Park
Gregory, Ed
Grossman, Albert
Grossman, Stefan
Guitar playing
classical
fingerpicking
flamenco
of Reverend Gary Davis
Gumping
Guthrie, Woody.
See also under
Dylan, Bob
“Gypsy’s Warning, The,”
Haiti
Hammond, John
Handbill
magazine
Handy, W. C.
“Hanging Around a Skin Game,”
“Hangman, Slack Your Rope,”
Hardin, Tim
“Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall, A,”
Haring, Lee
Harmonotes
Harms-Whitmark publisher
Harney, Ben
Harrigan and Hart
Harrington, Mike
Harris, Wynonie
Harrison, Benjamin
Harvard University
Harvest of Gentle Clang, A
(recording)
“Hava Nagilah,”
Havens, Richie
Hawkins, Coleman
Hays, Lee
“Hell Hound on My Trail,”
Henderson, Rick
Herbert, Victor
“Here’s to the State of Mississippi,”
Hermosa Beach, California
Hester, Carolyn
Hijackers
Hill, Chippie
Hill, Joe
Hill, Rod
Hippopotamus Club (France)
Hitchhiking
Hit Parade
H.M.S. Pinafore, The
Hodges, Johnny
Hoffman, Lee
Hof Shamir
Hogan, Emma “Mom,”
Holiday, Billie
Holy Modal Rounders
Homosexuals
Hood, Clarence
Hood, Sam
Hooker, John Lee
Hootenannies
Hootenanny
(television show)
Hopkins, Lightnin’
Horne, Neila
Hoskins, Tom
House, Son
“House of the Rising Sun,”
Houston, Cisco
Howlin’ Wolf
HUAC hearings
Hudson Dusters
Hungarian Revolution
Hurt, Mississippi John
Huystedt, Eric
Ian, Janice
Ian and Sylvia
“If I Had to Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You,”
“If You Miss Me Here, You Can Find Me at the Greasy Spoon,”
“I’m Going to Georgia,”
Immigrants
Individualism
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
“Little Red Songbook” of “Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent,”
Inside Dave Van Ronk
(recording)
Intelligentsia
“International, The,”
In the Tradition
(recording)
Ireland/Irish musicians
Isquith, Judy
Ives, Burl
Ives, Charles
“I Want to Go Back to My Little Grass Shack in Kealakakua, Hawaii,”
IWW.
See
Industrial Workers of the World
Jackson, Aunt Molly
Jackson, Harry
Jaffe, “Prof” Joe
James, Skip
Jancke, Ed
Japan
Jazz
apprenticeship system in
and older folk styles
relations among musicians
trad-Dixieland revival
traditional vs. modern
Jazz and Heritage Festival (New Orleans)
Jazz Cardinals
Jefferson, Blind Lemon
Jews
Jim Kweskin Jug Band.
See also
Kweskin, Jim
Joan of Arc High School
Joans, Ted
“John Henry,”
Johnson, Blind Willie
Johnson, Bunk
Johnson, James P.
Johnson, Lonnie
Johnson, Robert
Jonson, Ben
Joplin, Scott
Jug bands
Jukovsky, Marty
Kalb, Danny
Kaplan, Eddie
Kaufman, Bob
Kazoo playing
“K.C. Moan,”
Kern, Nan
Kerouac, Jack
Kettle of Fish coffeehouse
Kilberg, Lionel
Kingston Trio
“Kisses Sweeter Than Wine,”
Kornfeld, Barry
writing as “Kafka,”
Kossoy Sisters
KPFA radio station
Krasilowski, Bill
“Kumbaya,”
Kunstadt, Len
Kweskin, Jim
Labor Youth League (LYL)
Laibman, Dave
Lampell, Millard
Lang, Eddie
Langhorne, Bruce
Lass, Roger
“Last Thing on My Mind, The,”
Leadbelly
Leary, Timothy
Lederman, Perry
Lee, Peggy
Lenin, V. I.
Let’s Sing Out
(Canadian television show)
Levine, Jerry
Lewis, Furry
Liberals
Libertarian League
Linardos, Byron
Linder, Bob
“Linin’ Track,”
“Links on the Chain,”
Lip-synching
Listening (learning how to listen)
Listen to Our Story
(recording)
Little Richard
Lomax, Alan
Lomax, Bess
Lorca, Garcia
“Lord Randall,”
Los Angeles
Louis Armstrong Plays the Blues
(recording)
Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five.
See also
Armstrong, Louis
Lourie, George
“Love Me, I’m a Liberal,”
Loyalty oaths
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar

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