Dylan goes electric! : Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the night that split the sixties / Elijah Wald
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. Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the sixties
Record details
- ISBN: 0062366696
- ISBN: 9780062366696
- Physical Description: xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Dey Street Books paperback edition
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Dey St., 2016
- Distributor: New York, NY : Distributed by HarperCollins
- Copyright: ℗♭2015
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- 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
