About this title: Singer, songwriter, folk revivalist, and masterly guitarist Dave Van Ronk's autobiography, THE MAYOR OF MACDOUGAL STREET, is a vivid letter from 1950s and early-'60s Greenwich Village. Here, in 1959, just before the young Bob Dylan's arrival on the scene (as described in Dylan's CHRONICLES), an apartment rents for $90 a month, and the cafes and clubs are alive with jazz, folk music, and political intrigue. But Van Ronk is no nostalgia freak: in his Village it's hard to earn enough to keep body and soul together. Beat poetry is on the rise, and folk musicians are often only employed to drive ...
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Edition: First edition. First Da Capo Press Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780306814792ISBN:030681479X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some curling at corners. Pages are bright and clean. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 246 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. A great memoir written by a man that was as much in touch with the late fifties and early sixties folk movement as anyone! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780306814792ISBN:030681479X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Date Published: 2006-03-06
ISBN-13:9780306814792ISBN:030681479X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press (, Cambridge MA
Date Published: 2005)
ISBN-13:9780306814075ISBN:0306814072
Description: Written with Elijah Wald. Foreword by Lawrence Block. Includes photos. 246 pages. Hardcover. Condition: fine, with fine dust jacket. --"Unique first-hand account of the social and musical history of the 1950s and 1960s" by this founding figure of the 1960s folk revival. ISBN 0306814072. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780306814792ISBN:030681479X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005-04-12
ISBN-13:9780306814075ISBN:0306814072
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780306814075ISBN:0306814072
Description: New in New jacket. 9.06 x 5.98 x 1.1. 1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy! 280 pages. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the 1960s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerless musical historian, and one of the most quotable figures on the Greenwich Village scene. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780306814075ISBN:0306814072
Description: 8vo (6-1/2 x 9-1/2), 46 pp including Index. UNREAD hardbound book AS NEW in AS NEW Pictorial DJ. Review copy, with publisher's promotional materials enclosed. (h) read more
Description: New in New jacket. pp. 246. The memoir of Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002), a leader of the Greenwich Village folk revival of the ë60s. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter & arranger, a powerful singer, & one of the most influential guitarists of the ë60s, Van Ronk was also a marvelous storyteller, a peerless musical historian, & one of the most quotable figures on the Village scene. This unique first-hand account features encounters with young stars-to-be like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005-04-12
ISBN-13:9780306814075ISBN:0306814072
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2005-04-12
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780306814792ISBN:030681479X
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"Dave Van Ronk covers a lot of ground in his autobiography. He arrived in Greenwich Village at the tail end of the jazz era. He switched to folk music years before there were any clubs that would let a folk singer perform. He was there for the Washington Square Park folk scene and the end of the beat generation. Later he was a player in the middle of the 1960's Greenwich Village folk revolution. He was witness to the end of the folk music scene and the beginning of the singer /songwriter era. He has opinions on the politics of time, the history of the music and the evolution of American musical tastes. They say if you remember the 60's you weren't really there but Van Ronk was there and he remembers most of it. Very interesting autobiography."
"Some of the books I read about Bob Dylan mentioned Dave Van Ronk so when I saw this book I decided to read it. I'm glad I did. He was a great songwriter, guitar player, teacher and a pretty good author."
"One of the best books for me this year. A personal history of Van Ronk's time as one of the cognoscenti of the Great Folk Scare of Greenwich Village of the late 50's and early 60's. It would have been even more interesting if it could have been the book he wanted it to be. Sadly he died before it had a chance to be written but Elijah Wald did a great job of pulling it all together. If you enjoy music this book will pay for itself."
I recently reread this book, and the thing I love about this book most is simply being in the room with Dave Van Ronk, hearing about those shows early folk singers were playing in New York, watching as Bob Dylan slides in and out of scenes like a thief."
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