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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/folk.mp3' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Folk to Rock: When Dylan Went Electric' data-article-id='685'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11746'>Fifty years ago, the well-loved musician Bob Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival and was widely booed. </span> <span data-start-time='11746' data-end-time='32290'>The audience may have been unhappy but Dylan’s performance helped change the direction of music and culture in the United States.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='32290' data-end-time='36961'>The mid-1960s were a time of great change. </span> <span data-start-time='36961' data-end-time='42132'>One such place of change was the world of folk music. </span> <span data-start-time='42132' data-end-time='51950'>Music legend Bob Dylan became a symbol of change when he moved from acoustic to electric guitar.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='51950' data-end-time='59184'>Rock music historian Elijah Wald has written a new book about the change. </span> <span data-start-time='59184' data-end-time='62857'>It is called Dylan Goes Electric.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='62857' data-end-time='70363'>There was a moment in the early sixties where you could look at the Billboard charts and seven of the top 10 albums were folk records.</span> <span data-start-time='70363' data-end-time='104762'>And Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio, all had huge, huge, huge number-one records.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='70363' data-end-time='107347'>And then this happened:</span> <span data-start-time='107347' data-end-time='128277'>(Beatles song playing)</span> <span data-start-time='128277' data-end-time='136009'> The “British Invasion” introduced the world to the Beatles and grew a huge fan base for rock music. </span> <span data-start-time='136009' data-end-time='141020'>That worried many folk musicians, says Elijah Wald.</span> <span data-start-time='141020' data-end-time='143764'>In 1964, the Beatles had hit.</span> <span data-start-time='143764' data-end-time='152494'>By the summer of 1965, a lot of people in the folk scene were sort of feeling like their world was threatened.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='152494' data-end-time='156893'>They hoped that Bob Dylan would come to the rescue. </span> <span data-start-time='156893' data-end-time='164626'>Dylan was a major artist in folk music, a powerful songwriter and unusual singer.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='164626' data-end-time='172630'>In 1965, Dylan was booked to perform at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. </span> <span data-start-time='172630' data-end-time='181474'>He had performed at the festival in 1963 and 1964 with folk singer Joan Baez. </span> <span data-start-time='181474' data-end-time='188526'>The crowd was expecting to see a similar show, with a traditional sound like this.</span> <span data-start-time='188526' data-end-time='198662'>(music playing)</span> <span data-start-time='198662' data-end-time='202698'>Instead, a new Dylan sound came from the stage. </span> <span data-start-time='202698' data-end-time='220431'>(music playing)</span> <span data-start-time='220431' data-end-time='227596'>Bob Dylan had gone electric, and the followers of folk music were not pleased.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='227596' data-end-time='233129'>“When Dylan went electric, I think one of the issues was the feeling that -- wait a minute, he's gone over to the enemy."</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='233129' data-end-time='238458'>At first the Newport audience was quiet, seemingly in shock. </span> <span data-start-time='238458' data-end-time='247256'>Then, the crowd began to boo.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='247256' data-end-time='253220'>Folk lovers had looked to Bob Dylan to save their movement from rock and roll. </span> <span data-start-time='253220' data-end-time='259070'>But, author Wald says Dylan felt differently about the music genre.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='259070' data-end-time='264444'>Dylan had always liked rock and roll and Dylan didn't think of rock and roll as stupid music.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='264444' data-end-time='267755'>In fact, Dylan was a Beatles fan. </span> <span data-start-time='267755' data-end-time='278118'>He later said that from the first time he heard the Beatles he knew they were pointing to the direction where music had to go.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='278118' data-end-time='283243'>Honestly, once the Beatles hit, I think the writing was on the wall.</span> <span data-start-time='283243' data-end-time='287075'>But when Dylan went with the Beatles on that one: that was that.</span> <span data-start-time='287075' data-end-time='294331'>That was essentially the end of the folk scene as a huge mainstream pop trend.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='294331' data-end-time='301224'>Beyond the music, Dylan's performance that night also marked a turn in American culture.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='301224' data-end-time='312358'>Before 1965 was really a different world, and it's the '60s of the Civil Rights Movement, and of folk music and of joining arms across the generations and across the races.</span> <span data-start-time='312358' data-end-time='317868'>And after 1965 it's the world of rock</span> <span data-start-time='317868' data-end-time='335624'>I'm not saying that Dylan created that change, but I do think that the confrontation at Newport happened because it was symbolic of that much larger confrontation, and has been remembered because it really is sort of the moment of rupture where the new '60s emerged.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='335624' data-end-time='337755'>I’m Caty Weaver.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/dylan_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=3593 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data-question-id=3594 data-hint-location='42132' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/in_the_mid1960s_what_did_dylan_symbolize.m4a'>In the mid-1960's what did Dylan symbolize?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='change'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/power.m4a'><span>power</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/change.m4a'><span>change</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/youth.m4a'><span>youth</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/america.m4a'><span>America</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=3595 data-hint-location='247256' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/folk_lovers_had_looked_to_bob_dylan_to_save_their_movement_from__blank__.m4a'>Folk lovers had looked to Bob Dylan to save their movement from <span class='blank'>rock and roll</span>. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='rock and roll'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/rock_and_roll.m4a'><span>rock and roll</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/censorship.m4a'><span>censorship</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/pop.m4a'><span>pop</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/359/change.m4a'><span>change</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button 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