Yorkville How a 1960s Coffeehouse Scene Rewrote Popular Music

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Title: Yorkville How a 1960s Coffeehouse Scene Rewrote Popular Music
Author: Mike Daley
Category: Canada, History & Criticism
Language: English | 435 Pages | ISBN: 9781997701712


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The untold story of the explosive 1960s music scene that transformed a quiet neighbourhood into one of North America's most influential creative hubs.Yorkville: How a 1960s Coffeehouse Scene Rewrote Popular Music traces the rise and fall of the remarkably dense musical ecosystem that flourished in Toronto's tiny Yorkville district between 1954 and 1968. Within a few blocks, dozens of coffeehouses incubated emerging folk, rock, R&B, and jazz talent long before the artists became international stars. Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Rick James, Ian & Sylvia, Steppenwolf, and many others refined their sound in these smoke-filled, liquor-free rooms-creating a scene whose impact would ripple far beyond its borders.Drawing on more than 100 new interviews, previously unseen documents, and extensive archival research, music historian Mike Daley reconstructs Yorkville's evolution: the bohemian roots, the folk revival, the shift to electric rock, the legendary venues and...