Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books; 2 edition (January 13, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576877329
ISBN-13: 978-1576877326
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.9 x 11 inches

1960年桀骜不驯充满梦想，人气飙升的女演员与斯宾塞丽娜在纽约州萨拉托加温泉开了一家小小的楼上咖啡馆。后来她的丈夫计划把咖啡馆作为艺术发展的方法来赚更多的钱，这也为后期音乐发展历史的更改种下了一颗文化种子。在当时的美国咖啡馆是一个聚集了各种人群，并交流新想法，涌现出各种艺术家的汇聚点。丽娜咖啡厅平庸无奇的地位倒是吸引了很多歌手像是在1961年的Bob Dylan，1962年歌手兼表演艺术家Bernice Johnson Reagon，1965年前“美国派“唐·麦克林。很快丽娜咖啡馆成为了美国民谣文化运动的培育点，并激发了一代音乐人，艺术家与思想家，给了这个国家新的关于平等，自由，理解的思潮。

Jocelyn Arem is a folklorist, producer, consultant, and musician, who played her first professional gig on Caffè Lena’s legendary stage. Inspired by the Caffè’s history, she began to document the legacy and cultural impact of the venue and its founder. The publishing of this remarkable collection of stories and images is the culmination of Arem’s decade-long work as Director of the Caffè Lena History Project in association with the Library of Congress and in collaboration with Caffè Lena Inc. Her writing appears in the American Folklife Center News, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, and Boston Beats magazine, and her research has been featured on NPR, NBC, CBS, ABC, in American Airlines Magazine, and at GRAMMY week in Los Angeles. In partnership with Magic Shop Studio and the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC, she is producing a boxed set of original Caffè Lena recordings and an exhibition of Joe Alper’s Caffè Lena photographs to accompany the release of the book.
 
Joe Alper (1925–1968) is responsible for widely recognized and historic jazz, folk, and blues performance photography, including candid shots of the folk revival and the civil rights era. Joe and his wife, Jackie Gibson Alper, played a key role in supporting Lena Spencer and her Caffè, often housing musicians at their nearby home in Schenectady, New York. Jackie’s musical/political career included singing with the original Almanac Singers, becoming the fifth member of the original Weavers folksinging group, befriending Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and hosting WRPI’s Mostly Folk radio show from 1971–1993.

Joseph Deuel has been an avid photographer since grade school. He discovered Caffè Lena during high school in the early 1970s and has been taking photos there ever since. Many of these photos have found their way to nationally distributed CD covers and magazines. Mr. Deuel has been a frequent sound engineer at Caffè Lena since the late 1980s.

"The legendary venue-America's oldest continuously operating folk-music coffeehouse-is celebrated in...Caffe Lena, an illustrated oral history."
-People

"The book’s very existence highlights one of the little-told stories of the folk movement: its spread beyond the well-trod centers of Greenwich Village, Boston and San Francisco into Middle America."
-The New York Times

"Joe Alper's photographs blend with rare memorabilia and an oral history derived from more than 100 original interviews of artists who have performed on Caffe Lena's stage over the decades."
-The Saratogian