Elijah Wald
Auteur de Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus MacDougal Street. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. afficher moins
Crédit image: 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.
Œuvres de Elijah Wald
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music (2009) 238 exemplaires
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties (2015) 117 exemplaires
Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers,… (1993) — Joint Author — 77 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1959-03-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Relations
- Wald, George (father)
Hubbard, Ruth (mother)
Membres
Critiques
Escaping the delta : Robert Johnson and the… par Elijah Wald
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.
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.
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.
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.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Membres
- 1,047
- Popularité
- #24,610
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 27
- ISBN
- 54
- Langues
- 3