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| Title | : | Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312680694 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-01 |
| Language | : | English |
In Positively Fourth Street, David Hajdu, whose 1995 biography of jazz composer Billy Strayhorn was the best and most popular music book in many seasons, tells the story of the emergence of folk music from cult practice to popular and enduring art form as the story of a colorful foursome: not only Dylan but his part-time lover Joan Baez - the first voice of the new generation; her sister Mimi - beautiful, haunted, and an artist in her own right; and her husband Richard Farina, a comic novelist (Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me) who invented the worldliwise bohemian persona that Dylan adopted--some say stole--and made as his own.The story begins in the plain Baez split-level house in a Boston suburb, moves to the Cambridge folk scene, Cornell University (where Farina ran with Thomas Pynchon), and the University of Minnesota (where Robert Zimmerman christened himself Bob Dylan and swapped his electric guitar for an acoustic and a harmonica rack) before the four protagonists converge in New York.Based on extensive new interviews and full of surprising revelations, Positively Fourth Street is that rare book with a new story to tell about the 1960s. It is, in a sense, a book about the Sixties before they were the Sixties--about how the decade and all that it is now associated with it were created in a fit of
Poetry set to music, but not chamber music or beatnik jazz, man poetry you can dance to." The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers). You feel swept up in the coffeehouse culture that transformed ordinary suburban kids into ragged, radiant avatars of a traditional yet bewilderingly new music. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister
"If you like to read about the 60's from an insider's perspective" according to david makofsky. If you like to read about the 60's from an insider's perspective and a social history perspective, this is a good shot. I have recently read Van Ronk's memoirs and Suze Rotolo's great reflections on Dylan and Greenwich Village. Hajdu is a bit of an outsider, but this is real in depth reporting. In addition to Dylan and Joan Baez, you get a real interesting view of Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Thomas Pynchon, and Eric Von Schmidt Add to that Pete Seegar, and you get a mice rounded view of people and personalities. Other memoirs and biographies exist, but most of it is sex, dope, and rock and roll, and this g. "4 Decades Later Richard Sutton In 1962 I was a tentative, impressionable kid hoping that a guitar and a three chord song would give my life direction. The most important thing in Mr. Hajdu's new biographical tour-de-force is finding that although his subjects have become cultural icons and symbols for my generation's excesses, they were then also tentative, impressionable teenagers raised on Buddy Holly, the Lone Ranger and Mighty Mouse. They were also looking for direction and while most biographies of musical artists of that time usually concentrate on their achievements in the public arena, this book never forgets to remind us of the . Decades Later" according to Richard Sutton. In 1962 I was a tentative, impressionable kid hoping that a guitar and a three chord song would give my life direction. The most important thing in Mr. Hajdu's new biographical tour-de-force is finding that although his subjects have become cultural icons and symbols for my generation's excesses, they were then also tentative, impressionable teenagers raised on Buddy Holly, the Lone Ranger and Mighty Mouse. They were also looking for direction and while most biographies of musical artists of that time usually concentrate on their achievements in the public arena, this book never forgets to remind us of the . "I wanted to read this book because of my fascination" according to Chris Gagne. I wanted to read this book because of my fascination with Farina. I found the author's representation of the four main characters very fair but revealing. I finally realized just how big a star Joan Baez was in the early sixties.
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