Dylan goes electric! : Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the sixties / Elijah Wald.

Wald, Elijah, author.
New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers, [2015];©2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-338) and index.
The house that Pete built — North Country blues — New York town — Blowin’ in the wind — Newport — Times a-changin’ — Jingle-jangle morning — Electricity in the air — Younger than that now — Like a rolling stone — Aftermath.
Takes a look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event’s fiftieth anniversary. 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. Breaking new ground on a story we think we know, Dylan Goes Electric! is a thoughtful, sharp appraisal of the controversial event at Newport and a nuanced, provocative, analysis of why it matters.

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