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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina.(Review) (book review)

American Prospect, The,  July, 2001  by BURRELL, LISA

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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina, by David Hajdu. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 328 pages, $25.00.

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Because folk music in the 1960s was driven by larger-than-life personalities and agendas to match--because it was a scene--it's especially susceptible to grandiose analysis. That's what makes David Hajdu's critical equilibrium in Positively 4th Street so distinctive. Hajdu neither worships nor maligns; he reveals complex insight into the folk movement, particularly into "the lives and times" of four ...

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