Izzy Young

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Izzy Young in his shop (2014)

Israel "Izzy" Goodman Young , (born March 26, 1928 in Manhattan ; died February 4, 2019 in Stockholm ) was an American - Swedish music manager for folk music .

Life

Izzy Young's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland who ran a bakery in the Bronx , where he too began to work. He founded in 1957 the book and record shop Folklore Center in the MacDougal Street in Manhattan, where you also instruments and guitar strings could buy. In the immediate vicinity - in the basement of 116 MacDougal Street - the legendary Gaslight Cafe was founded in 1958 , where Young organized performances by the folk music scene in Greenwich Village . The shop was a meeting place and, according to Bob Dylan's memories, also served as a private postal address for some customers. Dylan rummaged through a pile of sheet music for "Sea Shanties, Civil War Songs, Cowboy Songs, Songs of Lament, Church House Songs, Anti- Jim Crow Songs, and Union Songs," as well as books of old legends, tattered magazines, and propaganda leaflets and listened through the collection of records held by Young for sale.

Dylan met Clarence Ashley , Gus Cannon , Mance Lipscomb , Tom Paley , Bruce Conforth and Erik Darling at Young . Dave Van Ronk tried a Gibson guitar at the Folklore Center . Young wrote the Frets and Frails column in Sing Out magazine for ten years . . Young was among those who wrested permission from New York City to make music in Washington Square Park after the Beatnik Riot on April 9, 1961 .

Young was advised by Albert Grossman to organize Bob Dylan's first public concert on November 4, 1961 in an adjoining hall of Carnegie Hall . The room was $ 60 and a ticket was $ 2. 52 spectators came, and it wasn't the last financial flop for Young. As folk music became increasingly depoliticized, Young picked it up in the underground magazine East Village Other in October 1965 and criticized Dylan and the other Grossman artists for skipping an anti- Vietnam war demonstration. Positively 4th Street was possibly addressed to Izzy as Dylan's return coach.

Shop window of the Folklore Centrum in Stockholm

Young moved to Stockholm in 1973 for political and personal reasons, where his daughter, actress Philomène Grandin , was born in 1974 . Since then he has been running a shop for folk music in Stockholm without economic success and was co-editor of the magazine Folket har aldrig segrat till fiendens musik . He processed his diary entries in various contributions to the chronicle of the Greenwich Village folk music scene. His collection of folk music also contains autographs that could fetch a high auction price. On the occasion of the Lebanon War in 1982 he joined the Swedish Middle East peace initiative Judar för israelisk-palestinsk fred .

Fonts (selection)

  • Autobiography: the Bronx, 1928-1938 . Photography David Gahr . Introduction Moses Asch . Folklore Center Press, New York 1969.
  • One night stands: en square dance-kväll med: 25 enkla, fina, traditionella amerikanska danser med tips för ledare, beskrivningar, förklaringar och mychket annat . Israel G. Young: Distribution: Folklore Centrum, Stockholm 1983.
  • Scott Barretta: The conscience of the folk revival: the writings of Israel "Izzy" Young . Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. 2013.

literature

Web links

Commons : Izzy Young  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ a b Jan Wiele: My friend? You have nerves , in: FAZ , August 16, 2014, p. 11
  3. ↑ a b c d Michael Gray: Izzy Young , in: The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia , 2006
  4. ↑ Joel Rose: How The Beatnik Riot Helped Kick Off The '60s , in: National Public Radio , April 9, 2011
  5. ↑ Bob Dylan's Carnegie Hall Debut: A Half Century Later ( September 7, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ), poster at Carnegie Hall, November 4, 2011
  6. ^ Philomène Grandin. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Young, Izzy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Israel Goodman Young (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Swedish music manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2019
Place of death Stockholm