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He was suspended for alleged participation in a student demonstration against campus regulations, and although he later resumed his status as a student, he dropped out in 1959, just before graduation.[9]Ascent on Greenwich Village folk scene[edit]On returning to Manhattan, Fari\u00f1a became a regular patron of the White Horse Tavern, the well-known Greenwich Village tavern frequented by poets, artists, and folksingers, where he befriended Tommy Makem. It was there that he met Carolyn Hester, a successful folk singer. They married 18 days later. Fari\u00f1a appointed himself Hester’s agent; they toured worldwide while Fari\u00f1a worked on his novel and Carolyn performed gigs. Fari\u00f1a was present when Hester recorded her third album at Columbia studios during September 1961, where a then-little-known Bob Dylan played the harmonica on several tracks. Fari\u00f1a became a good friend of Dylan; their friendship is a major topic of David Hajdu’s book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fari\u00f1a, and Richard Fari\u00f1a.Fari\u00f1a then travelled to Europe, where he met Mimi Baez, the teenage sister of Joan Baez, in the spring of 1962. Hester divorced Fari\u00f1a soon thereafter, and Fari\u00f1a married 17-year-old Mimi in April 1963. Thomas Pynchon was the best man. They moved to a small cabin in Carmel, California, where they composed songs with a guitar and Appalachian dulcimer. They debuted their act as “Richard & Mimi Fari\u00f1a” at the Big Sur Folk Festival in 1964 and signed a contract with Vanguard Records.[10] They recorded their first album, Celebrations for a Grey Day (released under the name Mimi & Richard Fari\u00f1a),[11] in 1965, with the help of Bruce Langhorne, who had previously played for Dylan. During the brief life of Richard Fari\u00f1a, the couple released only one other album, Reflections in a Crystal Wind, also in 1965. A third album, Memories, was issued in 1968, after his death.Fari\u00f1a, like Dylan and others of this time, was considered a protest singer, and several of his songs are overtly political. Several critics have considered Fari\u00f1a to be a major folk music talent of the 1960s. (“If Richard had survived that motorcycle accident, he would have easily given Dylan a run for his money.” \u2013 Ed Ward).His best-known songs are “Pack Up Your Sorrows” and “Birmingham Sunday”, the latter of which was recorded by Joan Baez and became better known after it became the theme song for Spike Lee’s film 4 Little Girls, a documentary about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. “Birmingham Sunday” was also recorded by Rhiannon Giddens in 2017, on her album Freedom Highway. He also wrote “The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood”, which was recorded by Sandy Denny.At the time of his death, Fari\u00f1a was producing an album for his sister-in-law Joan Baez. She ultimately decided not to release the album. Two of the songs were included on Fari\u00f1a’s posthumous album, and another, a cover version of Fari\u00f1a’s “Pack Up Your Sorrows”, co-written by Fari\u00f1a with the third Baez sister, Pauline Marden, was released as a single in 1966; it has been included in a number of Baez’ compilation albums.Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me[edit]Fari\u00f1a is known for his novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, originally published by Random House in 1966.[12] The title comes from the Furry Lewis song “I Will Turn Your Money Green” (“I been down so long\/It seem like up to me”). The novel, based largely on his college experiences and travels, is a picaresque novel, set in 1958 in the American West, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and mostly at Cornell University (called Mentor University in the novel). The protagonist is Gnossos Pappadopoulis, who enjoys dope, paregoric, feta cheese, Red Cap ale and retsina; attacks authority figures with anarchic glee; and lusts after the girl in the green knee-socks while searching for the right karma. The book has become a cult classic among fans of the 1960s and counterculture literature. Thomas Pynchon, who later dedicated his book Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) to Fari\u00f1a, described Fari\u00f1a’s novel as “coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch… hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.”On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his novel, Fari\u00f1a attended a book-signing ceremony at a Carmel Valley Village bookstore, the Thunderbird. Later that day, while at a party to celebrate his wife Mimi Fari\u00f1a’s twenty-first birthday, Fari\u00f1a saw a guest with a motorcycle, who later gave Fari\u00f1a a ride up Carmel Valley Road, heading east toward the rural Cachagua area of Carmel Valley.At an S-turn the driver lost control. The motorcycle tipped over on the right side of the road, came back to the other side, and tore through a barbed wire fence into a field where a small vineyard now exists. The driver survived, but Fari\u00f1a was killed instantly. According to Pynchon’s preface to Been Down…, the police said the motorcycle must have been traveling at 90 miles per hour (140\u00a0km\/h), even though “a prudent speed” would have been 30 miles per hour (48\u00a0km\/h).  Fari\u00f1a is buried in a simple grave, its marker emblazoned with a peace sign, at Monterey City Cemetery in Monterey, California.[13]On April 27, 1968, Fairport Convention recorded a live version of “Reno Nevada” for French TV programme Bouton Rouge, featuring vocals by Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews. They recorded the song for a BBC session later in the same year, this time with Dyble’s replacement in the band Sandy Denny, subsequently included on the album Heyday. Denny also recorded “The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” for her 1972 album Sandy. Matthews later recorded “Reno Nevada” and “Morgan the Pirate” for his album “If You Saw Thro’ My Eyes” as well as “House of Un-American Blues Activity Dream” for his album Tigers Will Survive, and other Fari\u00f1a compositions appeared on subsequent Matthews solo albums and on recordings by Matthews’ band Plainsong.South Carolina-based rock band A Fragile Tomorrow covered a version of Mimi and Richard’s song “One Way Ticket” on their 2015 release Make Me Over. Their version is a collaboration with Joan Baez and Indigo Girls. Brothers Dom Kelly, Sean Kelly, and Brendan Kelly of A Fragile Tomorrow are third cousins of Richard and had wanted to cover his music with Baez.[14]Joan Baez’s song “Sweet Sir Galahad” commemorates Fari\u00f1a’s death, the grieving of his widow Mimi, and Mimi’s eventual recovery and remarriage.[15]Thomas Pynchon’s 1973 novel Gravity’s Rainbow is dedicated to Richard Fari\u00f1a.[16]Richard Barone’s 2016 album Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s contains Barone’s interpretation of Fari\u00f1a’s “Pack Up Your Sorrows” performed as a duet with Nellie McKay.[17]In Richard Linklater’s movie Slacker, Fari\u00f1a is described as a “young truth with balls,” who could “think and fuck at the same time” (along with Richard Feynman, Italo Balbo, et al.), which is why “history buried him.”[18]On Jimmy Buffett’s 1973 album \u00a0A White Sport Coat and A Pink Crustacean, the single “Death of An Unpopular Poet” is claimed by Buffett to have been inspired by Farina and fellow poet Kenneth Patchen. [19]References[edit]^ “Richard Fari\u00f1a | Biography & History”. AllMusic. Retrieved August 26, 2021.^ Barnett, David (March 25, 2016). “Richard Fari\u00f1a: lost genius who bridged the gap between beats and hippies”. The Guardian. Retrieved July 19, 2018.^ “Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s: Fari\u00f1a, Richard George”. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 8, 2016.^ “Folk hero: Richard Fari\u00f1a’s wild ride from Tyrone to Greenwich”. The Irish Times. Retrieved July 19, 2018.^ Hajdu, David. Positively Fourth Street. p. 39.^ Hajdu, David. Positively Fourth Street. p. 41.^ Hajdu, David. Positively Fourth Street. p. 308.^ Pynchon, Thomas. “Richard Farina”. Pynchon.pomona.edu. Retrieved January 8, 2016.^ Altschuler, Glenn; Kramnick, Isaac (August 25, 2014). “Campus Confrontation, 1958”. Cornellalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved October 12, 2019.^ “Bread and Roses Founder Singer-Activist Mimi Farina Dead at 56”. Commondreams.org. Retrieved January 8, 2016.^ “Celebrations for a Grey Day”. RichardandMimi.com. Retrieved January 8, 2016.^ Hemmer, K. (2010). Encyclopedia of Beat Literature. Facts on File Library of American Literature. Facts On File, Incorporated. p.\u00a094. ISBN\u00a0978-1-4381-0908-4. Retrieved July 25, 2018.^ “Richard Farina”. RichardandMimi.com. Retrieved January 8, 2016.^ “A Fragile Tomorrow cover Mimi and Richard Fari\u00f1a’s “One Way Ticket” with Joan Baez and Indigo Girls \u2013 watch”. Consequence of Sound. August 26, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2018.^ Jaeger, Markus (April 1, 2010). Popular Is Not Enough: The Political Voice Of Joan Baez: A Case Study in the Biographical Method. Columbia University Press. ISBN\u00a09783838201061.^ Moore, Thomas (January 1, 1987). The Style of Connectedness: Gravity’s Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon. University of Missouri Press. pp.\u00a019. ISBN\u00a09780826206251.^ “Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s – Richard Barone | Songs, Reviews, Credits”. AllMusic. Retrieved August 26, 2021.^ Linklater, Richard (1992). Slacker (1st\u00a0ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press. p.\u00a0109. ISBN\u00a0978-0-312-07797-6. OCLC\u00a025368612.^ “Jimmy Buffett”. High Times Magazine. 1976. p.\u00a052.Further reading[edit]Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fari\u00f1a, Penguin ClassicsLong Time Coming and a Long Time Gone by Richard Fari\u00f1a, Random HousePositively Fourth Street by David Hajdu, North Point PressExternal links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/richard-farina-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Richard Fari\u00f1a – Wikipedia"}}]}]