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Elijah Wald, is a Grammy Award-winning writer, teacher, and musician whose books include Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues and How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll; An Alternative History of American Popular Music, and Dave Van Ronk's memoir, The Mayor of mostra altro MacDougal Street. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. mostra meno

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Fonte dell'immagine: Joe Mabel [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons. Elijah Wald performing at Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle, Washington July 30, 2016.

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1959-03-24
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Relazioni
Wald, George (father)
Hubbard, Ruth (mother)

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Although it laid low another one of my heroes, Robert Johnson, it was a very useful book, gave me a lot more background than I had had before about the development of the blues, and the Delta blues.
 
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RickGeissal | 9 altre recensioni | Aug 16, 2023 |
A fine book! Great backgrounds about the early lives of Dylan and Seeger, the development of the folk scene in the late 50s and early 60s, the history of the Newport Festival, and then a few in-depth chapters about what happened at the '65 festival when Dylan made his famous appearance with an electric band.

 
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steve02476 | 7 altre recensioni | Jan 3, 2023 |
Liked this book, about the author's experiences hitch hiking. I've read two of his other books about music and liked them a lot also. Some gentle, light-weight philosophizing.
 
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steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
Surprisingly one of the best books I've read. The book takes the reader from the start of the "folk revival" movement circa 1949 to the disastrous Dylan electrification at Newport in July 1965, to its aftermath.

I thought the history was excellent. It is clear that the author was trying to minimize the extent of damage Dylan did to the folk music movement. On the other hand the author may have been right that the real culprit was the Beatles and not Dylan and that Dylan actually went electric before Newport. He mentioned but minimized the possibility that Newport was just the wrong place to trespass with a different genre than people were expecting.

Overall though, with thos quibbles I rated it a "five." It made clear that the pre-1965 folk music movement, like the era itself, was not some Edenic idea.
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JBGUSA | 7 altre recensioni | Jan 2, 2023 |

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Opere
14
Utenti
1,038
Popolarità
#24,807
Voto
3.9
Recensioni
27
ISBN
54
Lingue
3

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