1. Chapter 5 Bob Dylan and the New Frontier
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2. Change This section of rock & roll history includes:
Civil Rights marches with Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham
President John F. Kennedy announcing plans for a new Frontier
Bob Dylan singing songs of social protest in New York

3. Wobblies IWW: International Workers of the World Called Wobblies
Protest songs for equality for American workers in the 1960s
Radical Unionists
Offices were closed by the feds during the red Scare after WWI

4. Songs of Protest Ralph Chaplin wrote: “Solidarity Forever”
Set to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn/ But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn/ We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn/ That the Union makes us strong/Solidarity Forever!”

6. Radical Unionists

7. Woody Guthrie Continued the goal of the IWW Born, 1912, in Oklahoma
Started his career in L.A. reading radical newspapers over the air
Moved to New York and wrote for communist party newspapers
Served in WWII

8. Returned from WWII and wrote songs like, “This land is your land”

9. Pete Seeger Joined the IWW Born 1919 in New York
Founded the Almanac singers with Guthrie
After serving in WWII he started a musicians union and agency
Started a group called the Weavers

10. Popularized folk songs like “Goodnight Irene”

11. Also popularized the folk song, “On Top of Old Smokey”

12. Issues for Protest Singers
Senate censure in late 1954
Blackballed from networks
Lost gigs
Lost Jobs

13. Folk Revival Folk came back in 1960 when college enrollment increased
College students were searching for an alternative to “pop” music that the “kids” were listening to

14. Kingston Trio Started the Folk Revival
Trio of College students signed to Capitol records
Surpassed Frank Sinatra as Capitols #1 money maker
Invested in 10 different companies including a restaurant

15. “Tom Dooley”

16. Return of the Blues
As Folk came back, so did the blues with artists like:
Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker
Howlin Wolf
College students were trading records for LP’s (long playing records)

17. Hootenanny Television show on ABC
Took viewers to Folk concerts on different campuses
Sold Sweatshirts, pinball games, magazines & made a film called Hootenanny Hoot

20. Bob Dylan Born May 24, 1941 in Hibbing, Minnesota
Real Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Picked on as a kid for being Jewish
Felt Isolated
Didn’t know if he was normal
Turned to music

21. Inspirations Hank Williams – introduced him to guitar Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker & Howlin’ Wolf
Country and R&B
Rock Around The Clock:
“Hey, that’s our music!”
Elvis Presley & Little Richard
Buddy Holly

22. “Rock & Roll was pretty much finished”
Turned to Folk Music
Kingston Trio inspired him
Traded his stuff for a Martin
acoustic guitar
1959 he began to perform traditional folk music

23. Guthrie Influence Dylan studied Woody Guthrie
Visited Guthrie as he was dying in the hospital in New York
First album he wrote a song dedicated to Woody

24. Political Dylan
Second album: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released in May 1963
Featured, “Blowin’ in the Wind,” a song based on the melody of an old spiritual
Became an anthem for the civil rights movement
Believed, “there’s other things in this world besides love and sex that’re important too”

25. Battle Cry
“A Pawn in their Game”: the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers
“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”: 1963 killing of an African American barmaid by a white Maryland tobacco farmer who received only six months in prison and a $500 fine
Chronicled the plight of African Americans

26. Standing up
Refused to perform on the Ed Sullivan Show when CBS banned him from singing “Talkin’ John Birth Society Blues”
Gave a concert with Pete Seeger to promote A.A. voter registration
Appeared on local NY television program dealing with “freedom singers.”
Performed at the March on Washington headed by MLK Jr.

28. Bob Dylan

29. At the Center of it all
Became a focal point for a community of protest singers
Joan Baez, Bob Dylan’s female counterpart in folk protest

30. Joan Baez
Daughter of a Mexican-born physicist and Scotch-Irish mother she was dark skinned
Faced racial discrimination at an early age
She composed few of her own songs
Took a decidedly political stance

31. Taking a Stand
Refused to appear on ABC’s Hootenanny when the show blacklisted Pete Seeger
Rejected more than $100,000 in concerts one year because “if someone desires to make money, I don’t call it folk music”
Demonstrated in Birmingham for desegregation
Marched on Washington

32. Singing her mentors tunes