Links

Charry’s google map, v. 2.0 (old map: v.1.0)

Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019 (GVSHP) (use the menu for musicians’ homes, music venues, etc.)

Civil Rights and Social Justice Map (GVSHP)

Mapping Other Scenes (Mapping Culture, musc293)

Newspapers

• Village Voice online archive (1955-)
  • “Last Rites for the Village Voice, a Bohemian Who Stayed on Too Long” (Sep. 5, 2018, NYT)
• East Village Other (1965-1972); online archive
• East Village Eye

Downtown Organizations

• Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP)
• Lower East Side History Project

General

• All Music Guide (comprehensive discographies, reviews, chart info)
• Village Voice listing of current live music performances
• Jazz listings for NY at gothamjazz.com
• The New York City Jazz Record (current scene)
• Citylore
• Center for Traditional Music and Dance
• WNYC Soundcheck: Vanished Venues radio documentary series (Fillmore East, Gerdes Folk City, Village Gate, Max’s Kansas City)
• They Lived Here (addresses)
• Huffington Post New York Music Project
• Brooklyn
  • freewilliamsburg.com
• Bronx
  • Bronx Music Heritage Center
• Photo Archives
  • Mapping historical photos from the NYPL (oldnyc.org)
  • New York Preservation Archive Project
  • GVSHP Photograph and Image Map
  • Urban Archive NYC
  • Pop Spots (popspotsnyc.com)
  • My Vanishing Downtown (blog with photos)

Greenwich Village

• Film and Radio
  • Greenwich Village Sunday, Stewart Wilensky (1960 documentary)
  • “Footloose in Greenwich Village” (WNYC radio documentary, 1960); conversation with Theodore Roszak
  • 1961 documentary
  • Sunday, Dan Drasin (1961 documentary about Washington Square Park protest), Folklore Center (1:35), Star Spangled Banner (12:10)
  • The Greenwich Village Story (Jack O’Connell, 1963)
• NYU and the Village
• African Americans in Greenwich Village
  • blacknewyorkers-nypl.org (Sylviane Diouf)
  • Mapping the African American Past
  • African American History in Greenwich Village (RGVH)
  • Slumming and Black-and-Tan Saloons (RGVH)
  • Minetta Lane
  • from James Wheldon Johnson’s Black Manhattan
  • Little Africa and Minetta Lane
• “Footloose in Greenwich Village” (WNYC, May 1960)
• 35 Images that Capture the Beatniks’ Heyday in New York City

Lower East Side

• Timeline of Lower East Side
• Photos from the 1940s (Charles W. Cushman Collection)
• Interactive map (LES Business Improvement District)
• East Village Other 
• Lower East Side Biography Project
• Lower East Side population density (NYT , 3/1/2012)
• History of tenement houses

• American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910

Visual Art

• LINKS FOR AVANT GARDES IN ART HISTORY (musc277)
• 1913 Armory Show (Primary Sources, Smithsonian)
• Ray Johnson
• Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 (NYU exhibit)
• Irascible Group (Life, January 15, 1951, p. 34)
• “Inside the Art Bars” (Art in America, 12/2/2013)
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Basquiat timeline
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Studio and Apartment
• Addresses of artists in NY
• “How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art” (Village Voice, 2013)

Poetry/Literature

• allenginsberg.org
• A cultural chronology of early beat generation literature
• Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen show (1959)
• Jack Kerouac, The Writing of On the Road
• William Burroughs on Jack Kerouac
• Pull My Daisy (1959)
• Beats in NY (1959, silent film)
• Ted Joans

Dance

• Yvonne Rainer’s We Shall Run (1963) (google images)

Theater

• Living Theater
  • The Connection (1961, Shirley Clarke director)
  • The Brig (1964, Jonas Mekas director)

Film

• Stan Brakhage: Cat’s Cradle (1959), Dog Star Man, Prelude (1961), Mothlight (1963)
• Jack Smith, Flaming Creatures (1962-63)
• Harry Smith: Harry Smith Archives, Early Abstractions (1946-57)

Performance Art

• A Brief History of Happenings in 1960s New York
• Marina Abramovic
  • Institute kickstarter
  • Nothing (London, 2014)
  • More on Nothing (The Guardian, May 2014)
• Tehching (Sam) Hsieh
  • wiki page
  • survey of one year performance pieces (artopia)
  • time clock piece (1980-81)
  • outdoor piece (1981-82)

Early Days

• Bohemia
  • The Vault at Pfaff’s
  • Bohemia (Mt. Holyoke website)
  • “Bohemia Walks and Talks” (Harper’s Weekly, 1857-1858), Wesleyan access only
  • Charles Astor Bristed’s “The Gypsies of Art” (translations of Henri Murger’s Scènes de la Bohème), Knickerbocker, January 1853-May 1854
  • BohemianLit.com
• Arch Conspirators, 1917 (John Sloan drawing)
• Oldest film footage of NYC (1890s-1900s)
• Film from 1911
• oldnyc.org (old photos)
• Eighty years of New York City, Then and Now (newyorker)
• Photos from the 1970s and 80 by a taxi driver Joseph Rodriguez (New York magazine)

1940s

• Jivin’ in Be-Bop (1946), with Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson

1950s

• The Fifties (Lone Star College library resource guide)
• authentichistory.com
  • Red Channels (1950)
  • McCarthyism
• HUAC McCarthy Hearings transcripts (1953-54)
  
  • Langston Hughes (vol. 2, 945, 973-998)
  • Pete Seeger (8/18/1955)
• Marxists Internet Archive (socialist realism in the arts; click on Subject Archive, then Art and Literature)
• Visit to a Small Planet (beatnik scene)

1960s

• The Sixties (Lone Star College library resource guide)
• June 20, 1961: Lennie Tristano (Half Note), John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin (Village Gate), Ornette Coleman (Five Spot), Jack Elliot (Gerde’s Folk City), Carla Bley (Phase 2), Poetry, Folk Singing, Jazz (The Bitter End)
• Andy Warhol
  • Warholstars.org
  • Andy Warhol (documentary by Kim Evans, 1987)
• Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture
• William Buckley tv show: Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, Lewis Yablonsky (1968)
• Grateful Dead in Palo Alto

1970s-

• Downtown Music, 1971-1987 (Peter Cherche)
• The Downtown Collection (NYU Fales Library Special Collections)
• Love Goes to Buildings on Fire (Will Hermes book) (NPR report)
• A Gathering of the Tribes (arts organization)
• Deadly Art of Survival trailer (Charlie Ahearn, 1979)
• 1970s NY film footage

Crossings

• “Folk and Jazz Concert” (Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp), April 1962
• “Benefit for Leroi Jones” (Cecil Taylor, Frank O’Hara, Morton Feldman, Larry Rivers), Living Theater, June 1963
• Tom Wilson
  • producertomwilson.com
  • “The Greatest Music Producer You’ve Never Heard of Is“

Other

• American Mavericks PBS series
  • Interviews with composers
• ESP label discography

Real Estate

• The Rise of the Twin Towers (1966-1973) (wirednewyork.com)
• “Manhattan Rents Beckon Brooklynites” (WSJ, 7/24/2012)
• “Is New York Only for the Successful?” (NYT, 8/9/2013)
• “Costly Rents Push Brooklynites to Queens” (NYT, 8/16/2013)
• “Ridgewood Gains Recognition and Quiche May Join the Strudel” (NYT, 12/26/1983)
• “Will Success Spoil Astor Place” (VV, 5/5/2014)
• “Buddy, Can You Spare a Studio” (NYT, 3/7/2014)
• “Watch New York City Gentrify Right Before Your Eyes” (huffingtonpost.com, 3/29/2014)
• “Last Bohemian Turns out the Lights” (NYT, 4/4/2014
• “The Peril of hipster Economics” (AlJazeera, 5/28/2014)
  • About the Project, Psychylustro
• “Passing of a Video Store and a Downtown Aesthetic” (NYT, 7/27/2014)
• “Are Manhattanites Becoming Brooklyn’s Bridge-and-Tunnel Crowd?” (NYT, 3/4/2015)
• “New York City’s Jazz Venue Renaissance” (theguardian.com, 10/6/2015)