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to find a place where the eyes can rest. beatniks, they had these coffeehouses they would go in and play chess and read poetry, and those same coffeehouses became kind of a proving ground for folk singers. all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. standing down in new york town one day folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. my outlook is popular songs should be sung because we don t do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. there s got to be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know? i mean, democrat, republican. and i would like to offer some kind of alternative, somehow, you know? folk revival scene had a big part of politics. you can t get left politics out of woody guthrie or pete seeger. so the greenwich village movement was there to celebrate people s culture.