SCENES

The Greenwich Village folk scene was the circle of folk singers, among them Dave Van Ronk and Bob Dylan, who played Village coffeehouses from about 1958 to 1965 and brought politics and literature into popular songwriting.

Merseybeat was the Liverpool scene of beat groups, an estimated three hundred at its peak, that played American rock and roll and rhythm and blues from about 1958 to 1966 and produced the Beatles.

Mod was a London youth subculture of about 1958 to 1967, devoted to tailored clothes and Black American and Jamaican music, whose followers went on to form the skinhead and northern soul scenes.

The British beat boom was the period from 1963 to 1966 when guitar groups, first from Liverpool, led the British charts and made bands that wrote and played their own songs the norm.

The CBGB scene was the group of musicians, among them Television, the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Talking Heads, who played CBGB in the 1970s and whom record labels signed as punk and new wave.

No wave was a movement of mostly untrained musicians and Super 8 filmmakers in downtown Manhattan, from about 1977 to 1982, whose rejection of rock's chords and melody led to Sonic Youth.

The downtown scene was the crowd of punk bands, DJs, painters, and Bronx hip hop artists who shared Manhattan clubs such as the Mudd Club from 1978 to 1983, bringing hip hop to downtown audiences.