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On the nighttime of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan needed the level at Newport Folk Event, backed by a power strap, and roared into his new rock hit, "Just like a Rolling Stone". The audience of devoted folk purists and political activists who got hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of distress, booing, and dispersed cheers. It was the shot read round the world - Dylan's declaration of musical freedom, the finish of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the speech of a technology - and one of the defining occasions in 20th-century music. In Dylan Moves Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political, and historical framework of the seminal event that embodies the transformative 10 years 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 Dylan's imaginative evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complicated marriage to the folk establishment and his sometime coach Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music permanently.
