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Newport, Dylan, And The Night That Split The Sixties
Dey Street
July 2015
On Sale: July 14, 2015
Featuring: Bob Dylan
368 pages
ISBN: 0062366688
EAN: 9780062366689
Kindle: B00OP1FJ6K
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 the world—Dylan’s
declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk
revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a
generation—and one of the defining moments in
twentieth-century music. 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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