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Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
By Wald, Elijah
- ISBN
- 9780062366689 9780062366702
- Publisher
- Dey St: HarperCollins
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Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
The night that folksinger Bob Dylan (b. 1941) "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is a pivotal moment in 20th-century American music history. While much has been written about the event (e.g., Andrew Grant Jackson's 1965), this book places Newport in the context of the seismic shift that happened in popular music in the 1960s. Wald (How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll) devotes the first 200 pages to the musical st...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
