Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072HST1VX |
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| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, "Like a Rolling Stone". The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political, and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the sixties. Wald delves deep into the folk revival, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide new insights into Dylan's artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever.. It was the shot heard round the world - Dylan's declara
G. Wallace said The 1965 Newport Folkie Fight, again (but improved). At 50 years, I guess this famous sixties event seems about as pertinent as a Reformation church schism, but the book is entertaining. Wald uses the wide lens and possesses the requisite historical imagination to attempt to describe the campfire crew that was the butt of the joke. This isn't easily done because it's hard to imagine today's analogy to that innocence (Apple fanboys?). I suppose Joe Boyd was a little clos. Dylan Goes Electric: A great American cultural history of the 1960s. If you are a Dylan devotee, this book is a detailed, readable, objective account of Dylan's life through that famous/infamous night at the Newport Folk Festival. Wald does an excellent job of tracing the times and the people that in sum-total lead to the inevitability of this 20th Century Icon plugging a cord into his guitar. The story articulates: the rise of folk-rock as a synthesis of its foundational forms (includ. "Dylan Again" according to fionaII. I thought when I saw this book why would I want to read another Bob Dylan book. I had read every book about him that had been written. But, I finally ordered it. Guess what? It was great. I did learn some things I did not know and I thought this book gave a very honest look at the man we call Bob Dylan. I enjoyed it very muchI saw Dylan at Emory University right after he finished his first album. I was fifteen years o