![]() ![]() SEAN WILENTZ: I wanted to explore Dylan’s roots in the musical world of the Popular Front, but didn’t want to retell the stories about Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. ![]() As a sometime Dylan obsessive-in 1999 I wrote a long piece about Dylan, which will reappear in my forthcoming book “Listen to This”-I approached Wilentz with some questions about his latest work.ĪLEX ROSS: I was fascinated by your decision to begin your book with a chapter on Aaron Copland. Wilentz has synthesized his memories, musical impressions, and historical analysis in a striking new book entitled “Bob Dylan in America,” which Doubleday will publish next month runs an excerpt this week. His father and uncle ran the Eighth Street Bookshop, an important gathering place for the Beats and other downtown literary spirits it was in his uncle’s apartment, above the store, that Dylan first met Allen Ginsberg. The historian Sean Wilentz, the author of “The Rise of American Democracy” and “The Age of Reagan,” has a long-standing interest in the songs of Bob Dylan, going back to his childhood in Greenwich Village. ![]()
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