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DHARMA LION
Music journalist and musician Wald (Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap, , etc.) focuses on one evening in music history to explain the evolution of contemporary music, especially folk, blues, and rock.
The date of that evening is July 25, , at the Newport Folk Festival, where there was an unbelievably unexpected occurrence: singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, already a living legend in his early 20s, overriding the acoustic music that made him famous in favor of electronically based music, causing reactions ranging from adoration to intense resentment among other musicians, DJs, and record buyers. Dylan has told his own stories (those stories vary because that’s Dylan’s character), and plenty of other music journalists have explored the Dylan phenomenon. What sets Wald's book apart is his laser focus on that one date. The detailed recounting of what did and did not occur on stage and in the audience that night contains contradictory evidence sorted skillfully by the author. He offers a wealth of context; in fact, his account of Dylan's stage appearance does not arrive until pages in. The author cites dozens of sources, well-known and otherwise, but the key storylines, other than Dylan, involve acoustic folk music guru Pete Seeger and
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Dharma Lion
"Given access to Ginsberg’s private archives and having interviewed more than people in 10 years of research, Schumacher weaves a monumental cultural biography."—Publishers Weekly
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"Michael Schumacher’s critical biography of Allen Ginsberg is a brilliant study of the poet, his work, and his times. Clear, candid, cogent, and complete, Schumacher has produced a marvelously balanced portrait, accessible to all lovers of American poetry."—Ann Charters, author of Kerouac: A Biography and The Portable Beat Reader
"Dharma Lion is a thorough, detailed, painstaking, monumental, comprehensive, encyclopedic account of the life of our Poet Laureate, Allen Ginsberg."—Timothy Leary
"Allen Ginsberg is our magnanimous mountain, generous giant of living American poetry. He deserves a book as expansive and embracing as this."—John Tytell, author of Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation
"Strong, wonderfully absorbing life of Beat bard Allen Ginsberg that breaks new ground in its crit
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Dharma Lion: A Biography dominate Allen Poet (Expanded Edition), by Archangel Schumacher. Campus of Minnesota Press, pp., $
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