Greenwich Village comes to the World of Bob Dylan with a panel comprised of David Browne, Terri Thal and Sean Wilentz.
A Complete Unknown brought to life the energy and atmosphere of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s when it once again became the center of American art and innovation. In its winding street, basket houses, and hurried bustle, Dylan found not only a new sense of self, but a new way to imagine himself as a poet, songwriter, and performer. This panel of historians and journalists will take us back to that unique cultural hothouse as part of lively conversation about how Dylan moved rapidly through the folk world and into the avant-garde before taking the stage in Newport where his electric guitar changed American music.
David Browne is a senior writer at Rolling Stone and a longtime music journalist who has written cover stories on Whitney Houston, Bob Dylan, Adele, Robin Williams, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in addition to hundreds of articles and reviews.
Terri Thal was 21-year-old Bob Dylan’s first manager prior to his contract with Albert Grossman and Columbia Records. She also managed musician Dave Van Ronk (who was her husband), and others to include the Roche sisters, Paul Geremia and The Holy Modal Rounders. She had many friends in Greenwich Village including Suze Rotolo and a number of seminal 1960s folk musicians.
Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His writings on American music have earned him two Grammy nominations and two Deems-Taylor-ASCAP awards. (He also holds the semi-facetious title of Historian-in-Residence at Bob Dylan’s official website, www.bobdylan.com.) Professor Wilentz lectures frequently and has written some four hundred articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces for publications such as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Le Monde, and Dissent.