| #33303 in eBooks | 2015-07-14 | 2015-07-14 | File type: PDF||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| The 1965 Newport Folkie Fight, again (but improved)|By G. Wallace|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||"Wald contextualizes the deeply divisive event in illuminating detail . . . a major contribution to modern musical history." ---Booklist Starred|From the Back Cover||On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the st
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 wh...
You easily download any file type for your device.Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties | Elijah Wald.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
