Dylan Goes Electric! From New York to Newport
Monday, July 27 at 6:30 pm
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue
Fifty years ago this month, Bob Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival, startling the audience and setting off a firestorm in the music industry. Dylan’s artistic evolution within the New York folk music community in the 1960s from “protest singer” to introspective songwriter was nothing short of remarkable. His lyrics captured the mood of the times and stopped Americans in their tracks. Join a panel of Dylan experts to reflect on Dylan’s transformation in New York and Newport during the tumultuous 1960s.
Noxious New York: Race, Class and Garbage
Monday, August 3rd from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue @ 103rd Street
Drawing on her award-winning book Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, Julie Sze will examine the link between race, class, and garbage with a focus on how culturally and politically disenfranchised communities re-work long-standing conflations between polluted places and peoples. Throughout NYC’s history, but particularly in the second half of the 20th Century, community organizations have worked through social movements and policy-making to improve the physical landscape and public health in their neighborhoods. The talk will address case studies around NYC garbage politics in the 1980s and 1990s, but looks at older historical moments, and outside the City.
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