Stories of Our Lives by Frank de Caro

Author:Frank de Caro [Caro, Frank de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Folklore & Mythology
ISBN: 9780874218930
Google: D23gCwAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2013-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. But I’m still trying. Madison Smartt Bell’s Charm City: A Walk through Baltimore (New York: Crown Journeys, 2007) was a good read but concerned mostly with his reaction to the city’s physical layout and hence only somewhat helpful. And I asked Laura Lippman, at her Garden District Books appearance in New Orleans, if she could explain Baltimore. She kindly took a stab at it, to some avail.

2. My old high school and college friend Joseph Skerrett, who went to Hopkins the year after I did, tells this story: Elliott Coleman was also the translator for the Belgian critic and theoretician Georges Poulet. Poulet came to speak and a Hopkins professor of history asked him a question. When Poulet seemed to misunderstand, the historian asked again in perfect French. Hopkins was that kind of place.

3. The Wikipedia entry on the neighborhood gives credit to “newcomers and real estate brokers,” noting that by the mid-1960s the media had adopted the name. “East Village, Manhattan,” Wikipedia, last modified 22 February 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Village_Manhattan.

4. Dan Wakefield, New York in the 50s (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999), 275.

5. Wakefield; Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume 1 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004); John Tytell, Reading New York (New York: Knopf, 2003); Robert Stone, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008); Suze Rotolo, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (New York: Broadway Books, 2008). Although Stone spent time in New York, he was in California as well as elsewhere, and he concentrates less on New York than the other writers. Rotolo was romantically involved with Dylan, and much of her memoir concentrates on that relationship and upon various other individuals she knew; she has a lot to say about the world of revivalist folk singers, which she observed partly because of her connection with Dylan.

6. Dylan, Chronicles, 103, 72, 22.

7. Probably I did not invent these but am indeed thinking about the cover photo for Dylan’s second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which Rotolo discusses in A Freewheelin’ Time (214ff); her book includes additional photos taken on the same occasion on Jones Street. She notes that Dylan grabbed a suede jacket for the photo shoot quickly and that “It was an ‘image’ choice because that jacket was not remotely suited for the weather … he was bound to freeze going out in that” (215). I suppose that the image made a big impression on me. Rotolo also recalls that “it was one of those damp New York City winter days that chill to the bone” (214).

8. Dylan, Chronicles, 54.

9. Tytell, Reading New York, 301.

10. Which Rotolo writes about in A Freewheelin’ Time (349, 342–44); she suggests that the blackout was “controlled chaos.” She also writes (361) how, as time went on, New York seemed to be “getting grittier and more dangerous … The counterculture was imploding; chaos lurked along the edges,” and suggests being “mired in Vietnam” as a root cause.

11. Wakefield, New York in the 50s, 1.

12. Ibid., 158.

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