Positively 4th Street
Book description
When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a youth idol with an acid wit and a barbwire throat; and Greenwich Village, where he first made his mark, was unquestionably the center of…
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1 author picked Positively 4th Street as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If there is any cultural icon that defines this era, it is music.
Positively 4th Street chronicles the personal and musical lives of these four, a portrait of extravagant, quarrelsome genius and the transformation of folk music from academic song-collecting to an era-defining musical form, by way of Greenwich Village, the anti-war movement, and shifting personal entanglements.
From Amanda's list on the Sixties and the Vietnam War era.
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