{"product_id":"dylan-goes-electric-newport-seeger-dylan-and-the-night-that-split-the-sixties-9780062366689","title":"Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport  Seeger  Dylan  and the Night That Split the Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN  including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Timothee Chalamet. 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 worldDylans declaration of musical independence  the end of the folk revival  and the birth of rock as the voice of a generationand 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 Dylans 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. 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 Dylans declaration of independence . . . This is one of the very best accounts Ive read of musicians fighting for their honor.  Todd Gitlin  author of The Sixties and Occupy Nation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651870056501,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062366688","price":61.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062366689.jpg?v=1781843134","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dylan-goes-electric-newport-seeger-dylan-and-the-night-that-split-the-sixties-9780062366689","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}