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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Dave Van Ronk Collection #20508, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Andrea Vuocolo Van Ronk in May 2015 (Acc. 102216).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Encoded by: Anne Wells, May 2016

Archival processing of the Dave Van Ronk Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Blues (Music)
• Brill, Bob (Musician)
• Buchanan, Ian (Musician)
• Dylan, Bob, 1941-
• Folk music--United States.
• Folk musicians--United States.
• Folk singers--United States.
• Folk songs, English--United States.
• Hudson Dusters (Musical group)
• Paley, Tom.
• Van Ronk, Dave.

• Ronald D. Cohen Collection (#20239)
• Elijah Wald Collection (#20522)
• McCabe's Guitar Shop Collection (#20511)

American folksinger, David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (1936-2002), was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 30, 1936. Known as the "The Mayor of MacDougal Street," Van Ronk was an important figure in the American folk music revivial and the Greenwich Village music scene for more than four decades. Drawing from and developing a wide repertoire of songs, guitar techniques, and performing skills, he befriended and mentored musicians and songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jack Hardy, Suzanne Vega, Christine Lavin, Patrick Sky, Tom Paxton, and many others. Van Ronk considered his music as an accompaniment to his singing and brought many elements from jazz, blues, folk, rock, swing, and even classical music into his arrangements of songs. The 2013 feature film Inside Llewyn Davis by the Cohen Brothers is based on Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, which was finished by his collaborator, Elijah Wald, and published in 2005.

The Dave Van Ronk Collection consists of 16 open reel audio recordings, 1965-1971, created and compiled by Dave Van Ronk, an American folk singer and an important figure in the American folk music revivial and the Greenwich Village music scene for more than four decades. The collection includes concert recordings of Van Ronk circa 1967, 1969, and 1971, a WBAI radio show of Dave Van Ronk and Terri Thal, a work tape of his 1967 album Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters, as well as recordings of Ian Buchanan, Tom Paley, and Bob Dylan.

• Audiotapes (FT-20508/15517-15532)