The Times They Have a-Changed: Where is the protest song now?
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In 1966, to the chagrin of his fans and the folk music community, Bob Dylan went electric. The five years leading up to this moment is the focus of A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold.
This indignation came at a time where folk was the language of protest, from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam war, but when did folk get left behind? What was Dylan’s lasting effect on the protest song?
Tom Gatti is joined by Kate Mossman, senior writer at the New Statesman, and Dorian Lynskey, writer and author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs.
You can read more from Kate and Dorian on newstatesman.com.
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| 1:04.1 | Judas, an audience member, cried out during a 1966 Bob Dylan concert in Manchester. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't believe you. |
| 1:11.4 | This was followed by Moore Hecels, |
| 1:13.3 | the crowd incensed that Dylan had sold out and gone electric. |
| 1:18.3 | The transition from folk to rock |
| 1:20.4 | is the focus of the new Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold, |
| 1:23.9 | a complete unknown. |
| 1:26.0 | Covering just five years, |
| 1:27.3 | the film follows Dylan's |
| 1:28.4 | catapult to stardom in the dismay of the folk community he leaves behind. This |
| 1:33.1 | indignation came at a time when folk was the language of protest, from the civil rights |
| 1:37.4 | movement to the Vietnam War. But when did folk get left behind and what was Dylan's |
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