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Joan Baez
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And a Voice to Sing with |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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400 |
| Date: |
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1988 |
| ISBN: |
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0712618279 |
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Century Books |
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1.81 pounds |
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6.46 x 9.06 x 1.5 inches |
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1 Ben (Switzerland) |
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1 lin chiswell (United Kingdom) |
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Steve (Australia) (2011/05/07):
Fifty years after her stunning debut at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable. Her voice is part of the soundtrack of a generation, and her commitment to social justice helped form its conscience. She marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired Václav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, sang on the first Amnesty International tour, and stood alongside Nelson Mandela on his ninetieth birthday in London's Hyde Park. She brought the '60s Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, and forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, and she unself-consciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963 in an effort to bring attention to songwriters that continues to this day.
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