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The golden days of Greenwich Village

David Browne celebrates the vitality of the Village in its 1960s heyday, when clubs were subterranean crucibles where jazz, folk, blues and poetry swirled in a potent brew

Anne Margaret Daniel
Dave Van Ronk performing in New York in 1964. Kai Shuman/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 18 January 2025
issue 18 January 2025

  • Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital

    David Browne

    Hachette, pp. 381, £28

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