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Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Elijah Wald
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Description for Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGH; AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 210 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. 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. It was the shot heard round ... Read more
One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. 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. It was the shot heard round ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062366696
SKU
V9780062366696
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About Elijah Wald
Elijah Waldis a writer and musician whose books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues and How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. A respected expert on the folk revival, he collaborated with Dave Van Ronk on The Mayor of MacDougal Street, the inspiration for the Coen Brothers' ... Read more
Reviews for Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Provides a deeply researched and entertaining chronicle of the culture clash that Dylan sparked from the Newport stage.
David Remnick, The New Yorker It is a great work of scholarship, brimming with insight - among the best music books I have ever read.
The Guardian Wald contextualizes the deeply divisive event in illuminating detail ... Read more
David Remnick, The New Yorker It is a great work of scholarship, brimming with insight - among the best music books I have ever read.
The Guardian Wald contextualizes the deeply divisive event in illuminating detail ... Read more