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“Provides a deeply researched and entertaining chronicle of the culture clash that Dylan sparked from the Newport stage.” (David Remnick, The New Yorker)“It is a great work of scholarship, brimming with insight – among the best music books I have ever read.” (The Guardian)“Wald contextualizes the deeply divisive event in illuminating detail . . . a major contribution to modern musical history.” (Booklist (starred review))“Wald is a superb analyst of the events he describes. And his analyses fly in the face of conventional wisdom. Even his introduction includes enough startling context to indicate ‘Dylan Goes Electric!’ will be seeing the old story with new eyes.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times)“Wald’s personal knowledge seems encyclopedic . . . An enjoyable slice of 20th-century music journalism.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Anyone interested in Dylan, folk music, or rock and roll will adore this volume. It might not resolve the questions of what really happened in Newport in 1965, but it comes very close.” (Library Journal)“In this tour de force, Elijah Wald complicates the stick-figure myth of generational succession at Newport by doing justice to what he rightly calls Bob Dylan’s ‘declaration of independence’ . . . This is one of the very best accounts I’ve read of musicians fighting for their honor.” (Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties and Occupy Nation)“What Wald reveals about that most mystified of singer-songwriters and the folk and rock worlds that then surrounded and elevated him changed my own view of a moment I thought I had all figured out-and of the songwriterly 1960s as a whole.” (Ann Powers, author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America and, with the artist, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece)“Devastatingly smart analysis . . . Wald is a remarkably sharp and graceful writer, capable of drawing extraordinary connections between artists, genres, and cultural moments. There’s simply no one better when it comes to unpacking not just the mechanics of American music, but the mythology of American music.” (Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records)“Elijah Wald’s book reflects the many directions in which America’s music scene evolved in those extraordinary years, 1963-1970-I can’t recommend it enough.” (George Wein, Founder of the Newport Folk Festival)
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On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival. Backed by an electric band, he roared into a blistering version of “Maggie’s Farm,” followed by his new rock single, “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, boos, 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 roots and impact of this seminal event. He delves deep into the folk revival and its intersections with the civil rights movement, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide important 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.
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Product details
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Dey Street Books; 1st edition (July 14, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780062366689
ISBN-13: 978-0062366689
ASIN: 0062366688
Product Dimensions:
5.8 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
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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 it's hard to imagine today's analogy to that innocence (Apple fanboys?). I suppose Joe Boyd was a little closer to the mischief in his description in White Bicycles but essentially the small group responsible for the sound seems to have wished to give part of the audience a little poke in the eye before watching it be buried in the sand of history. Dylan comes off like a mist driven by storm, creating what he can with scarcely a thought toward marketability (which was definitely part of the charm) and this is a big turning point in his performing biography: the ensuing ten months or so got nasty enough audience response that drummer Levon Helm quit to work on an oil rig. Dylan persisted to the end (and his motorcycle accident) but seldom seemed comfortable with his audience when he resumed performing ("all I see is dark eyes").I think Wald had yet a more interesting book but there's such an industry in Dylan biographies that he took the deal he could. He's especially good at perceiving and explaining all the social fissures within the broad folk "movement." And having been close enough to Dave Van Ronk to finish his autobiography Mayor of McDougall Street, Wald certainly has the inside scoop. He understands the commercial angles and he's listened to all the bootleg tapes. Finally, he's enough of a wit that there are plenty of laughs. Not your standard "artist versus audience" triumphal Dylan book and that's a good thing.
If you are a Dylan devotee, this book is a detailed, readable, objective account of Dylan's life through that famous/infamous night at the Newport Folk Festival. Wald does an excellent job of tracing the times and the people that in sum-total lead to the inevitability of this 20th Century Icon plugging a cord into his guitar. The story articulates: the rise of folk-rock as a synthesis of its foundational forms (including blues), the juxtaposition of Dylan and Pete Seeger leading up to the cultural transformation, and the impact Dylan's music has had on so many musicians (of many genres) who came after him. Only small criticism is that one group, The Grateful Dead, is not mentioned in the discussion, and probably should have been. A great cultural history of the 1960s.
Wald does what so few writers on popular music manage to do--he offers an historical argument. There is as much here about Pete Seeger and the folk revival scene as there is about Dylan. Reflecting his deep immersion in a variety of source materials, Wald contextualizes Dylan's (in)famous electric kiss-off better than any other writer I've read. In the process, he demythologizes and historicizes it. This is no simple-minded paean to Dylan-the-Genius. Instead, it is a brilliant exposition that illustrates how committed yet precious many of the Newport folkies were, yet also how diffident and careless Robert Zimmerman already was by 1965-66. As befits a truly great book, it offers no easy or definitive answers, and leaves the reader with more questions than when he first opened it.
This is a fantastic book about a moment in popular music that many people, including myself, thought was settled. Wald incorporates multiple source materials to show how the career paths of Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan both converged and diverged to culminate in the conflict over folk music that happened in Newport in 1965. Perhaps the most fascinating part of the book is when Wald lets various participants, including fans, recount their experience during Dylan's "electric" performance. The reader can then easily see that how music history remembers this moment is tied to the claims and stakes made about folk music. Maybe Wald spends a bit too much time getting to the 1965 performance, but the payoff is immense. Well-written and enjoyable overall, especially if like me you love reading about the history of American folk and popular music from around 1945-1965.
IF you have an interest in the history of the late 1950s-early 1960s 'folk' revival, and in Bob Dylan's impact on that movement and on the history of rock and roll, you will find this book fascinating. It's well written, fast paced, and told me a great deal I didn't know about a subject I thought I knew a great deal about. This is not, however, a book for Dylan fanboys - it is as much a book about Pete Seeger and the folk movement into which Dylan crashed, as it is about Dylan.
Interesting to a point, but far too detailed for my taste. Also, the last two chapters are like groundhog's day, he just keeps saying the same thing over and over again. Ok, I heard you the first time, I know what you think the meaning of that night was, there is no need to restate it 30 times.
Elijah Wald is one of the best musicologists I've ever read. His How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n' Roll is eyeopening, and this history of Dylan's electronic move shows the underlying revolutionary changes that were happening in the mid-1960s. Incidentally, Wald's father was a Nobel-Prize winning biologist and anti-Vietnam War activists and his mother, Ruth Hubbard, is a brilliant feminist biologist. Elijah understands the political climate of the 1960s like no other musicologist. He's also a player, so he understands the music from the inside.
There is a lot of this book that sets us up for Newport. I get that and it is done well, but it has a lot ofinformation that a Dylan fan and a 60's survivor already knows. The best part of the book is when it zones in on Newport, the history, the growth of the festival, the shows each year leading up to the electric meltdown.The reporting on the Dylan Goes Electric weekend is precise and complete.I'm glad I read the book.
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