Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, And The Night That Split The Sixties

"All folk music lovers think they know what happened at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when a scruffy, much loved American protest singer whipped out a Stratocaster. The musical disruption that followed rivals the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Fortunately, cultural historian Elijah Wald wasn’t content to let sleeping legends lie. Wald revisits Bob Dylan’s infamous set through contemporary accounts (including pages from one fan’s scrapbook) and interviews with surviving participants. The result leaves those of us who weren’t there wishing we had been. It’s rollicking, poignant and fun."