How Greenwich Village (and Bob Dylan) Created the Sixties

Rolling Stone Music Now

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Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Even before the Beatles hit the U.S., the 1960s really got started when Bob Dylan hit the pop charts in 1962 — via Peter, Paul, and Mary's cover of "Blowin' in the Wind." David Browne, author of the new book Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, sits down with host Brian Hiatt to talk about the world-changing music that came out of that neighborhood, from Dylan to Nina Simone and beyond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.5	I'm Brian Hyatt.
0:32.1	This is Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:34.6	One of my colleagues, David Brown, just released a new book that's unlike a lot of
0:38.7	music books. It's not really about a particular artist or band or genre. It's about a place,
0:44.7	a neighborhood. The book is Talk in Greenwich Village, the heady rise and slow fall of America's
0:51.1	Bohemian Music Capital. And the story touches on everyone from Nina Simone to
0:55.6	Bob Dylan and beyond. I'd also argue that the book reminds us just how much of the ethos of the
1:00.8	1960s was born in that one Manhattan neighborhood. Here's my conversation with David Brown.
1:10.5	What made the West Village the West Village? How did it become a magnet for this incredibly wide variety of music and creativity and poetry over many years and many genres?
1:26.6	And it didn't start in 1960. It started in the late 30s,
1:30.6	really, it seems like. Was there a geographical or other reason, spiritual, whatever it is, reason
1:37.1	that it became what it became? Yeah, there was. I mean, geographical is actually a big part of it
1:42.2	in a way. Ever since the early 1800s, right, the grid of the village was figured out,
1:50.5	and it doesn't conform to the normal grid of parallel intersecting streets of a city.
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