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Blowin' in the Wind

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Episode 3: Blowin' in the Wind

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In the 1960s a new generation, spearheaded by Bob Dylan, took folk music into the charts.

Documentary series about American folk music. In the 1960s a new generation, spearheaded by Bob Dylan, took folk into the charts and made it a voice of protest.

Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s.

In the 1960s a new generation, spearheaded by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, took folk to the top of the charts and made it the voice of youthful protest. Whilst the northern folk revivalists helped bring civil rights to the south, the Newport Folk Festival brought the old music of the south to the college kids in the north. However, when Dylan turned up at Newport in 1965 with an electric guitar things would never be the same again. 

With Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Robbie Robertson, Stephen Stills, Country Joe McDonald, Roger McGuinn, Odetta and Tom Paxton.

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