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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina cover

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina

David Hajdu

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#2265 of 3,809 books · #819 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2001).

Positively Fourth Street is the captivating story of how four young bohemians - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and style that became one of the most enduring legacies of the 1960s. Author David Hajdu vividly captures the emergence of folk music from cult practice to popular art form through the colorful lives of this influential foursome. The narrative unfolds from the Baez family home in suburban Boston to the vibrant folk scenes of Cambridge and Minneapolis, where a young Robert Zimmerman reinvented himself as Bob Dylan. Hajdu reveals surprising details and never-before-told stories, shedding new light on Dylan's early years and his rise as a protest singer and countercultural icon. With its fresh perspective on a defining era, Positively Fourth Street offers an illuminating look at the 1960s before they became "the Sixties."

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13
9781429961769
Topics
Folk music scene1960s countercultureBob Dylan and Joan Baez

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