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Washington Square Memoirs -- The Great Urban Folk Boom: 1950-1970 (2008)

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Lead Performances: The Holy Modal Rounders and Friends, Dave Van Ronk and Various Artists

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By Marc Weingarten

It's too easy to dismiss Cold War-era folk music as the earnest, mewling imprecations of white, privileged kids railing against social injustice; a lot of enduring music emerged from that all-too-brief cultural efflorescence. This well-annotated three-CD set culls the best-known tracks (''Blowin' in the Wind,'' ''Walk Right In'') with material from the movement's brightest lights (Eric Von Schmidt, Carolyn Hester) and left-of-center eccentrics (the Holy Modal Rounders, Dave Van Ronk).

Posted Jul 20, 2001

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