Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu
This is the candid, mesmerizing, and often intimate account of how four young people--Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina--gave rise to a modern-day bohemia and created the enduring sound and style of the 1960s. Even before they became lovers in 1963, Dylan and Joan Baez were seen as the reigning king and queen of folk music. But their songs and their public images grew out of their association with Joan's younger sister, Mimi, a musician in her own right, and Richard Farina, the roguish novelist Mimi married when she was seventeen. Their rise from scruffy coffeehouse folksingers to pop stars comes about through their complex interpersonal relationships, as the young Dylan courts the famous Joan to further his career, Farina woos Mimi while looking longingly on her older sister, and Farina's friend Thomas Pynchon keeps an eye on their amours from afar.David Hajdu is a three-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and the author of five notable works of cultural history, biography, and criticism, including Lush Life. He is the Nation's music critic, a lecturer at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a songwriter and librettist. He currently resides in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780865476424 |
| ISBN 10 | 086547642X |
| Title | Positively 4th Street |
| Author | David Hajdu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | North Point Press |
| Year published | 2002-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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