<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for "Wald, Elijah"]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for "Wald, Elijah"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/hclib/rss/search?query=%22Wald%2C%20Elijah%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:47:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Dylan Goes Electric!]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the music world's preeminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world-- Dylan's declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation-- and one of the defining moments in twentieth-century music. In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political, and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the Sixties. Wald delves deep into the folk revival, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide new insights into Dylan's artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime-mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever. Breaking new ground on a story we think we know, Dylan Goes Electric! is a thoughtful, sharp appraisal of the controversial event at Newport and a nuanced, provocative, analysis of why it matters.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5217633</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5217633</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5217633109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062366689/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dylan Goes Electric!]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world--Dylan's declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation--and one of the defining moments in twentieth-century music. In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the sixties. Wald delves deep into the folk revival, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide new insights into Dylan's artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever. Breaking new ground on a story we think we know, Dylan Goes Electric! is a thoughtful, sharp appraisal of the controversial event at Newport and a nuanced, provocative, analysis of why it matters.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5267480</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5267480</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5267480109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062366702/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C3290383</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C3290383</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3290383109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Alternative History of American Popular Music</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780195341546/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll]]></title><description><![CDATA["There are no definitive histories," writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, "because the past keeps looking different as the present changes." Earlier musical styles sound different to us today because we hear them through the musical filter of other styles that came after them, all the way through funk and hiphop. As its blasphemous title suggests, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6209781</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6209781</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6209781109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>An Alternative History of American Popular Music</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780199712137/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jelly Roll Blues]]></title><description><![CDATA["A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a composer and bandleader in the 1920s, but got his start twenty years earlier, entertaining customers in the city's famous bordellos and singing rough blues in Gulf Coast honky-tonks. He recorded an oral history of that time in 1938, but the most distinctive songs were hidden away for over fifty years, because the language and themes were as wild and raunchy as anything in gangsta rap. Those songs inspired Wald to explore how much other history had been locked away and censored, and this book is the result of that quest. Full of previously unpublished lyrics and stories, it paints a new and surprising picture of the dawn of American popular music, when jazz and blues were still the private, after-hours music of the Black "sporting world." It gives new insight into familiar figures like Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong, and introduces forgotten characters like Ready Money, the New Orleans sex worker and pickpocket who ended up owning one of the largest Black hotels on the West Coast. Revelatory and fascinating, these songs and stories provide an alternate view of Black culture at the turn of the twentieth century, when a new generation was shaping lives their parents could not have imagined and art that transformed popular culture around the world--the birth of a joyous, angry, desperate, loving, and ferociously funny tradition that resurfaced in hip-hop and continues to inspire young artists in a new millennium."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6549937</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6549937</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6549937109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Censored Songs &amp; Hidden Histories</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306831409/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Blues]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4444290</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4444290</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4444290109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Very Short Introduction</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780195398939/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Global Minstrels]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4292974</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4292974</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4292974109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Voices of World Music</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780415979290/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding With Strangers]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C1156341</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C1156341</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1156341109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Hitchhiker&apos;s Journey</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781556526053/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Escaping the Delta]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C991634</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C991634</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/991634109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780060524234/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narcocorrido]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C811587</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C811587</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/811587109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780066210247/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narcocorrido]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4195393</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4170982109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Society Blues</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781558492691/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[River of Song]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4129493</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C4129493</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wald, Elijah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4129493109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780312200596/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside Llewyn Davis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6344655</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6344655</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6344655109</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781681430942/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=715515165419</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother Robert]]></title><description><![CDATA["An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's step-sister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6020826</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6020826</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anderson, Annye C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6020826109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Growing up With Robert Johnson</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306845260/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mayor of MacDougal Street]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5042852</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5042852</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Van Ronk, Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5042852109</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780786736812/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mayor of MacDougal Street]]></title><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6860487</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C6860487</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Van Ronk, Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6860487109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306814075/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long Walk Home]]></title><description><![CDATA["Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music. Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus and Gillian Gaar, and other noted Springsteen scholars and fans such as A. O. Scott, Peter Ames Carlin, and Paul Muldoon. They reveal how Springsteen's albums served as the soundtrack to their lives while also exploring the meaning of his music and the lessons it offers its listeners. The stories in this collection range from the tale of how "Growin' Up" helped a lonely Indian girl adjust to life in the American South to the saga of a group of young Australians who turned to Born to Run to cope with their country's 1975 constitutional crisis. These essays examine the big questions at the heart of Springsteen's music, demonstrating the ways his songs have resonated for millions of listeners for nearly five decades. Commemorating the Boss's seventieth birthday, Long Walk Home explores Springsteen's legacy and provides a stirring set of testimonials that illustrate why his music matters."--Publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5961216</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5961216</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5961216109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Reflections on Bruce Springsteen</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781978805262/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shake It up]]></title><description><![CDATA["Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on Jay Z. The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: "it's too early," editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, "for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile--a volatility that mirrors, still, that of pop music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The writing here attempts to catch some in a bottle."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5537285</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C5537285</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5537285109</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Great American Writing on Rock and Pop From Elvis to Jay Z</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781598535310/MC.GIF&amp;client=hennp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>