In a move that outraged folk purists, Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. But was the crowd's anger really about the guitar?

Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s ...

Playing the festival over a dozen times since her debut and then headlining stint, she remained a big-ticket name on the folk ...

It was a three song set that helped the change the course of pop music history: Bob Dylan ‘going electric’ at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Exactly fifty years after the event, the festival’s ...

“Maggie’s Farm” originally appeared on Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home album, which was released in April 1965. The song was released as a single in the U.K., peaking at No. 22 in that country. The ...

Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...

Dylan aside, electric instruments were already dotting ... but by the time you get to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, it was the folk purists who had to adjust to how much the times they were ...

James Mangold likes to start his movies with a bang. “He wants to make sure that the people don’t get initially bored with the movie’s opening,” A Complete Unknown supervising sound editor Donald ...

For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question. Among ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. Driving home ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to recent biopic "A Complete Unknown", which starred ...

“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...