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CONCERT PROMOTER AND MUSICIAN GEORGE WEIN DISCUSSES THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL - WHY HE STARTED THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL - DETAILS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE FOLK AND JAZZ FESTIVALS
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| 01:02:58 178 |
GEORGE WEIN TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH PETE SEEGER TO RE-START THE FOLK FESTIVAL IN 1963 -TALKS ABOUT THE FINANCES - EVERYONE WAS PAID $50 EACH A REGARDLESS OF HOW BOG A STAR THEY WERE
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| 01:03:55 235 |
GEORGE WEIN ON JOAN BAEZ 0- HER EARLY YEARS AND HER ASSOCIATION AT THE EARLY FESTIVALS
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| 01:04:57 297 |
WEIN TALKS ABOUT HOW BAEZ WAS MADE FAMOUS AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL..SHE WAS THE IDEAL PERFORMER THAT - THE POSTER GIRL FOR THE FOLK MOVEMENT
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| 01:06:26 386 |
GEORGE WEIN ON BOB DYLAN'S EARLY DAYS AND HIS ASSOCIATION WITH THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL - THE FOLK PROTEST ERA - HOW THE FESTIVAL INFLUENCED THE COUNTRY AND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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| 01:08:11 491 |
GEORGE WEIN TALKS ABOUT THE BEHIND THE SCENES CONFLICTS - FIST FIGHT BETWEEN ALLAN LOMAX AND ALBERT GROSSMAN OVER PAUL BUTTERFIEND - THE BATTLES BETWEEN THE PURISTS AND NON-PURISTS
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| 01:10:05 605 |
ABOUT THE FOLK MUSIC MOVEMENT AND PETE SEEGE'S' ROLE IN IT ALL - GREAT ADMIRATION FOR PETE SEEGER
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| 01:11:10 670 |
" FOR 6 OR 7 YEARS EVERY YEAR THERE WAS A LITTLE UTOPIA IN THE WORLD - THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL" - THE FOLK MOVEMENT
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| 01:12:52 772 |
TALKS ABOUT DYLAN AND HOW THE MUSIC CHANGED WHEN DYLAN STARTED PLAYING ELECTRIC MUSIC - IT CHANGED THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE FOLK FESTIVAL
MORE ABOUT THE MOMENT BOB DYLAN PLAYED WITH THE ELECTRIC BAND AT THE FOLK FESTIVAL |
| 01:15:25 925 |
TALKS ABOUT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SELLING OUT ELEVEN NIGHTS AT SHEA STADIUM 600 THOUSAND PEOPLE
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| 01:16:19 979 |
TALKS ABOUT HOW JAZZ RECORDS RARELY SOLD 500,000 RECORDS AND HOW ROCK AND POP SOLD A LOT MORE
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| 01:17:21 1041 |
TALKS ABOUT NEWPORT IN THE LATE 1960S, JONI MITCHELL, JAMES TAYLOR
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THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL WAS 99% WHITE PEOPLE EXCEPT FOR THE PERFORMERS
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| 01:19:17 1157 |
TALKS ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS AND HOW THAT WAS A PART OF THE FOLK MOVEMENT - SOMETHING THEY WANTED TO DO
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| 01:20:42 1242 |
WHY DID FOLK MUSIC BECOME THE SPRINGBOARD FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT? - THERE WAS A REACTION AGAINST LATE 1950'S POP MUSIC - PEOPLE WANTED SOMETHING REAL - FOLK MUSIC SUPPLIED AN ALTERNATIVE TO POP MUSIC
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| 01:22:44 1364 |
FOLK MUSIC " REACHES IN" IT BRINGS PEOPLE TO IT - IT HAS A MESSAGE THAT =YOUNG PEOPLE RELATED TO
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| 01:26:05 1565 |
TALKS ABOUT HOW GREAT MUSIC IN GENERAL AND THE DEPTH OF ITS COMMUNICATION AND EMOTION IS WHAT COUNTS
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| 01:26:51 1611 |
GEORGE WEIN TALKS ABOUT HOW THE FOLK AUDIENCES AND JAZZ AUDIENCES WERE DIFFERENT - THE FOLK AUDIENCE HAD A CLOSER REACTION TO THE ARTISTS
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PETE SEEGER UNDERSTOOD THAT TO REACH PEOPLE GET THEM TO SING AND THIS IS SOMETHING THEY DID AT NEWPORT - EVERYONE SANG TOGETHER " IT WAS MARVELOUS "
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