BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Guest Lecture: Elijah Wald "Dylan Goes Electric! Music\, Myth \, and History" X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260718T030118Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_1645896 DTSTART:20151121T190000Z DTEND:20151121T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Elijah Wald is a musician\, writer\, and historian who has publ ished on a broad range of music and related cultural subjects. He started playing guitar after seeing his first Pete Seeger concert at age seven\, w ent to New York at seventeen to study with Dave Van Ronk\, and spent many years traveling and performing in North America\, Europe\, Asia and Africa \, studying with the Congolese guitar innovator Jean-Bosco Mwenda\, and to uring with the African-American string band master Howard Armstrong. His r ecordings include an LP\, Songster\, Fingerpicker\, Shirtmaker\, and a CD\ , Street Corner Cowboys.\n\n In the early 1980s he began writing for t he Boston Globe\, first covering gospel and other “roots” styles\, the n becoming the newspaper’s regular “world music” reporter throughout the 1990s. He has published well over a thousand articles for a wide rang e of popular and academic journals\, and his dozen books include Dylan Goe s Electric! Newport\, Seeger\, Dylan\, and the Night that Split the Sixtie s\; How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music\; Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Inven tion of the Blues\; The Dozens: A History of Rap’s Mama\; Global Minstre ls: Voices of World Music\; Dave Van Ronk’s memoir of the New York folk revival\, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (the inspiration for the Coen Brot hers’ movie\, Inside Llewyn Davis)\; and Narcocorrido\, a survey of the modern Mexican ballads of drug smuggling and political corruption.\n\nWald has an interdisciplinary PhD in ethnomusicology and sociolinguistics\, ha s taught in the musicology department at UCLA\, and travels widely as a sp eaker on the history and culture of popular music. He is particularly know n for exploring musical styles within broader sociocultural contexts\, as well as for original research on early blues\, Mexican ranchera\, and the folk revival. His awards include a Grammy for the album notes to The Arhoo lie Records 40th Anniversary Box\, an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award\, and speci al mention for the American Musicological Society’s Otto Kinkeldey award . There is voluminous further information at his website: http://www.elij ahwald.com.\n\n \n\nPhoto by Sandrine Sheon\n\n--\n\nDylan Goes Electric! Music\, Myth\, and History\n\nBob Dylan’s electric set at the Newport Fo lk Festival in 1965 is an iconic moment in 20th century music: the folk re vival’s prophet and “voice of a generation” took the stage with an e lectric band\, and an audience of dedicated folk fans reacted with dismay and booing. The confrontation is often compared to the reaction that greet ed Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 1913\, and signaled a new understandin g of rock as a modern art form and of rockers as innovative rebels. More b roadly\, it signaled fundamental changes in American culture—soon to spr ead around the world—a split between the old and new lefts\, and the ris e of the counterculture\, and its ripples are still being felt fifty years later.\n\nThrough recordings\, images\, and new research\, Elijah Wald ex plores the world that shaped Dylan and his music\, as well as the varied w orlds of the people who loved him\, hated him\, ignored him\, or felt he w as betraying them\, seeking to understand both the changes happening in th at moment and the reasons some people found those changes so threatening. A central figure in that story is Pete Seeger\, a complex artist and activ ist whose work has frequently been oversimplified\, including his role in creating the Newport Folk Festivals. It is a story that reaches back to th e populist communal movements of the 19th century\, and remains as relevan t as ever.\n\nElijah Wald is a musician\, historian\, and writer who has t aught at UCLA and lectured widely on pop\, roots\, and Mexican music. His books include the recent Dylan Goes Electric! Newport\, Dylan\, Seeger\, a nd the Night that Split the Sixties\, which builds on his earlier Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues and How the Beat les Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popula r Music. His many awards include a 2002 Grammy\, and his memoir with Dave Van Ronk\, The Mayor of MacDougal Street\, was the inspiration for the Coe n Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. GEO:41.291672;-82.219704 LOCATION:Clonick Hall\, Bertram and Judith Kohl Building SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Elijah Wald "Dylan Goes Electric! Music\, Myth\, an d History" URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/guest_lecture_elijah_wald_ dylan_goes_electric_music_myth_and_history CATEGORIES:Lectures/Symposia/Workshops END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR