MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Newport Folk Festival, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Tombstone Blues
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A master songwriter that understood that music is not static. Constantly reinventing himself in his over 50 years in the music industry. His original tone of protest songs, the pre-1965, changed the day he picked up an electric guitar. Newport folk festival in the 1960"s was the usa"s premier folk festival. In 1963 and 1964 dylan performed his protest music about love and change, it was very well received. In 1965 he returned to newport, and while he did play some acoustic songs, he picked up an electric guitar and started playing rock music. Many of his songs appeared to directly address his discomfort with his role as folk"s spokesman ( my back pages, it" ain"t me, it"s all over now, baby blue, like a. Rolling stone ) and others moved into surrealism, absurdity and experimentation ( highway 61 revisited, tombstone blues ). Bob dylan is one of the most important figures in rock history.
