Dylan Goes Electric! Book Talk with Elijah Wald
When:
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2016 7:00p -
8:30p
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2016 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Watertown Free Public Library
123 Main Street
Watertown, MA 02472
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Music
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/965570316899660/
Local author Elijah Wald will speak about his latest book 'Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties.' This event is free and open to the public.
Mr. Wald’s writing has challenged fans of some music icons with previous books like 'How the Beatles Destroyed Rock’n’Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music' and 'Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues.' Join us to see how Mr. Wald views Bob Dylan going electric at the beloved Newport Folk Festival, and why it changed our popular culture.
Find out why the critics say:
“It is a great work of scholarship, brimming with insight – among the best music books I have ever read.” (The Guardian)
“Provides a deeply researched and entertaining chronicle of the culture clash that Dylan sparked from the Newport stage.” (David Remnick, The New Yorker)
“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)
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