镜子的另一面：纽波特民歌艺术节1963~1965

&quotBob Dylan going electric&quot at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is one of those epochal moments in rock history that seemingly everyone has heard about, but what few people seem to know is that it wasn&#39t some ephemeral event that we only know from word of mouth -- filmmaker Murray Lerner documented the performances at the Newport Festival for several years running, and The Other Side of the Mirror collects footage from the three years Dylan appeared at the celebrated folk gathering, allowing us to see Dylan&#39s rise through the folk scene for ourselves. Watching Lerner&#39s documentary, what&#39s most remarkable is how much Dylan changed over the course of 36 months the young folkie performing at the afternoon &quotworkshop&quot at the side of Joan Baez in 1963 is at once nervy and hesitant, singing his wordy tunes while chopping away at his acoustic guitar and energizing the crowd without seeming to know just what he&#39s doing. In 1964, Dylan all but owns Newport, and he clearly knows it he&#39s the talk of the Festival, with Baez and Johnny Cash singing his praises (and his songs), and his command of the stage is visibly stronger and more confident while his new material (including &quotMr. Tambourine Man&quot and &quotIt Ain&#39t Me, Babe&quot) sees him moving away from the &quotprotest songs&quot that first made his name. When the audience demands an encore after Dylan&#39s evening set (Odetta and Dave Van Ronk were scheduled to follow him), Peter Yarrow tries to keep the show moving along while Dylan beams at the crowd&#39s adulation, like the rock star he was quickly becoming. By the time the 1965 Newport Festival rolled around, Dylan&#39s epochal &quotLike a Rolling Stone&quot was starting to scale the singles charts, and the hardcore folk audience was clearly of two minds about his popular (and populist) success. When Dylan, Fender Stratocaster in hand, performs &quotMaggie&#39s Farm&quot backed by Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and the rhythm section …