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Dylan goes electric!
Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties
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The film's taken from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, a book that came out in 2015! It's a fantastic retelling of events from the early sixties that led up to the fiasco at Newport! After you see the movie, read the book!
Theo Von · This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · Dec 2024 Listen at 1:17:27 The best things said about it
The film's taken from Elijah wals Dylan goes electric a book that came out in 2015.
So a complete unknown it's adapted from Elijah wald's 2015 book Dylan goes electric.
Um one of the things wal does in his book that I think was so important is by defining the period of time that Wald was looking at by really focus focusing on this period 5 years let's say between 60 and 65.
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Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald provides a detailed historical retelling of the early 1960s folk scene and the pivotal events leading up to Bob Dylan's controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival. Appearing on This Past Weekend w/ Timothée Chalamet recommended the 2015 book to listeners as a fantastic companion piece to the biographical film A Complete Unknown, noting that the movie draws directly from its pages. Director James Mangold also discussed the book on The Book Review, praising Wald for successfully isolating and defining a critical five-year period between 1960 and 1965. Gilbert Cruz echoed these sentiments in the same interview, confirming that the cinematic adaptation is squarely rooted in Wald's historical narrative. The commentators highlighted the book's value in capturing the artistic tension, cultural anxiety, and generational shifts that defined the era as acoustic purists collided with the dawn of amplified rock. Through meticulous research, the text illuminates the complex decisions and social dynamics that forever altered the landscape of American popular music during a time of profound cultural transformation.
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Theo Von The film's taken from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, a book that came out in 2015! It's a fantastic ret… 1
“The film's taken from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, a book that came out in 2015! It's a fantastic retelling of events from the early sixties that led up to the fiasco at Newport! After you see the movie, read the book!”
Gilbert Cruz so a complete unknown it's adapted from Elijah wald's 2015 book Dylan goes electric 1
“so a complete unknown it's adapted from Elijah wald's 2015 book Dylan goes electric”
James Mangold um one of the things wal does in his book that I think was so important is by defining the period of time t… 1
“um one of the things wal does in his book that I think was so important is by defining the period of time that Wald was looking at by really focus focusing on this period 5 years let's say between 60 and 65”
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“the film's taken from Elijah wals Dylan goes electric a book that came out in 2015”