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    -WIKIPEDIA: Elijah Wald
    -AUTHOR SITE: Elijah Wald – Writer, Musician
    -BOOK SITE: Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald (Harper Collins)
    -PRESS PACKET: Elijah Wald – Dylan Goes Electric! Press packet (ElijahWald.com)
    -AUTHOR PAGE: Elijah Wald (Hachette)
    -TWITTER: @elijahwald
    -BLOG: Old Friends: A Songobiography (Elijah Wald)
    -DISCOGRAPHY: Elijah Wald (Discogs)
    -ENTRY: Elijah Wald (The Autheors’ Guild)
    -COLLECTION: Elijah Wald Collection, 1946-2007 (UNC: Wilson Special Collections Library)
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Elijah Wald (IMDB)
    -INDEX: Wald, Elijah (Internet Archive)
    -INDEX: Elijah Wald (Research Gate)
    -INDEX: Elijah Wald (Oxford American)
    -INDEX: Elijah Wald (NPR)
    -VIDEO ARCHIVES: “elijah wald” (You Tube)
    -PLAYLIST: A Complete Unknown: A Listening Companion from Smithsonian Folkways (Written & Curated by Elijah Wald, 12/17/24, Flagging Down the Double E's)
    -ESSAY: The Difficult, Adventurous, Happy Life Of Rosalie Sorrels (Elijah Wald, 6/15/17, NPR: The Record)
    -ESSAY: Think Twice: Remembering Bob Dylan’s forgotten album (Elijah Wald, December 13, 2016, Oxford American)
    -ESSAY: The Blue Blues: The Staying Power of Old School Vulgarity (Elijah Wald, December 14, 2016, Oxford American)
    -EXCERPT: Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties: An excerpt from Elijah Wald's new book about Dylan's infamous night at the Newport Folk Festival. (Pitchfork, July 28, 2015)
    -AUDIO EXCERPT: The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald · Audiobook preview (Google Play Books)
    -ALBUM: Street Corner Cowboys by Elijah Wald (Band Camp)
    -ESSAY: Respecting the Blues Makers (Elijah Wald, Music Mission)
    -ESSAY: Add Fats Domino to the pantheon of founding rock ’n’ rollers (Elijah Wald, October 25, 2017, CNN)
    -ESSAY: Did Beatles push black music aside? (Elijah Wald, August 25, 2014, CNN)
    -PODCAST: Interview with Elijah Wald (Eli Smith, 5/05/07, Down Home Radio Show)
    -PODCAST: S03.13 Not Completely Unknown 04: Elijah Wald on Newport '65 (with Stu Levitan) (Dylan.fm, 1/01/25)
    -PODCAST: Episode #935: Elijah Wald on “A Complete Unknown” (Kreative Kontrol, 12/23/24)
    -PODCAST: Elijah Wald on Newport '65 (with Stu Levitan, Jan 01, 2025, The FM Club)
    -PODCAST: Elijah Wald on Robert Johnson: We re-examine the myth of Robert Johnson. The most famous blues singer of them all died at the age of 27 after recording only 29 songs. Today he's idolized, but Elijah Wald tells Anne Strainchamps that may be for the wrong reasons. Wald is the author of “Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues.” (Anne Strainchamps, April 13, 2020, To the Best of Our Knowledge)
    -VIDEO: Elijah Wald: Elijah Wald shares discusses his book Hitchhiking with Strangers and shares his best tips for getting a good ride and responds to concerns about the dangers of hitchhiking. He also talks about his other works. A musician and former music critic for the Boston Globe, Wald is the author of several books on the music world, including Narcocorrido, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, River of Song. (Scout Dialogue, 06/05/2006)
    -VIDEO: Elijah Wald presents his book "Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories" (April 13, 2024, Bird & Beckett Books)
    -VIDEO: Book Talk and Reading with Elijah Wald (NOLA Jazz Museum, Apr 4, 2024)
    -PODCAST: Escaping the Delta (Megan Sukys/Dave Beck, 02/10/2004, KUOW: The Beat)
    -PODCAST: The 'Mayor of MacDougal Street' (Megan Sukys/Dave Beck, 04/20/2005, KUOW: The Beat)
    -VIDEO INTERVIEW: Ethelbert Miller interviews Elijah Wald
    -LECTURE: "My Culture, Right or Wrong: Thoughts about Music and Power" (Elijah Wald, Keynote Address and Q&A by Elijah Wald for "The Power of Song: The Cultural Politics of Singers Around the Globe," a conference at Dartmouth College on December 4, 2020)
    -VIDEO: Sing Out! Broadsides and Banjos: The Folk Music Revival (Elijah wald, The New York Public Library, 4/02/13)
    -VIDEO: Dylan Goes Electric! Music, Myth & History (Elijah Wald, Jun 27, 2016, Library of Congress: American Folklife Collection)
    -VIDEO: Elijah Wald w/ Kim Mack on Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories (PMBiP, 15/04/24)
    -VIDEO: Elijah Wald & Amanda Petrusich | Dylan Goes Electric! (Strand Book Store, Aug 3, 2015)
    -PODCAST: #38 – Elijah Wald – The Blues: A Very Short Introduction (Tony Peters, 11/01/10, Icon Fetch)
    -VIDEO INTERVIEW: Time to Connect Episode #80 – Elijah Wald (Time to Connect (with john krajicek), 122/21/24)
    -PODCAST: F2K Ep. 46 - Music Historian Elijah Wald (Dan Buskirk, Fun 2 Know Podcast)
    -AUDIO: Newport Folk Festival Kicks Off 50 Years Since Bob Dylan Went Electric with Elijah Wald (WBUR, July 24, 2015)
    -PROFILE: For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction: Elijah Wald’s ‘Dylan Goes Electric’ inspired the new Timothée Chalamet-led Dylan biopic (Jim Sullivan, December 17, 2024, Forward)
    -INTERVIEW: Talking with Elijah Wald about His Book, “Dylan Goes Electric!” (Henry Carrigan, July 25, 2015, No Depression)
    -INTERVIEW: 50 Years Ago, Bob Dylan Electrified A Decade With One Concert (NPR: All Things Considered, 7/25/15)
    -INTERVIEW: Dylan Goes Electric! Interview with Elijah Wald — a complete unknown: Peter Stone Brown interviews author Elijah Wald, whose book would inspire Jay Cocks and James Mangold’s ‘A Complete Unknown’ (Peter Stone Brown Archives, Nov 30, 2022)
    -INTERVIEW: Cambridge native Elijah Wald wrote the book that inspired ‘A Complete Unknown.’ Here’s what he thinks of the film.: “It’s not historically accurate, but it’s poetically accurate,” says Wald of the new Bob Dylan biopic. (Lauren Daley, December 23, 2024, Boston.com)
    -INTERVIEW: A Hitchhiker's Guide to America (NPR: Talk of the Nation, July 6, 2006)
    -INTERVIEW: Biographer says ‘A Complete Unknown’ is fiction but pure Bob Dylan (Alistair Hunter, 1/02/25, The Downey Patriot)
    -INTERVIEW: ‘Dylan Goes Electric’ Book Author Talks Newport 1965 ( Jim Sullivan, Best Classic Bands)
    -INTERVIEW: Interview: Folk and pop historian Elijah Wald (Michaelangelo Matos, August 3, 2015, Red Bull Music Academy)
    -PROFILE: Elijah Wald (Country Blues)
    -INTERVIEW: Bob Dylan Biography Writer on What's Fact or Fiction in Timothee Chalamet's A Complete Unknown (JJ Dorfman, CBR)
    -INTERVIEW: A Cultural Mission gets dirty with Elijah Wald and Jelly Roll Morton (Andrew Gilbert, April 11, 2024,, Mission Local)
    -INTERVIEW: Dylan Goes Electric: An Interview With Elijah Wald (Aaron Ghitelman, Headcount)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Listeners' Favorite Movie Bands; Elijah Wald Remembers Dave Van Ronk (WNYC: Soundcheck, December 11, 2013)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Jelly Roll Blues: A Conversation with Author Elijah Wald (Tom Parkinson, September 27, 2024, Kansas Public Radio)
    -INTERVIEW: Elijah Wald on Escaping the Delta (Ned Sublette, 1/26/05, Afropop Worldwide)
    -INTERVIEW: Elijah Wald Dives Into Bob Dylan's Iconic Break With Folk (Jim Sullivan, 7/15/15, WBUR)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: 50 Years Ago, Bob Dylan Electrified A Decade With One Concert (ARUN RATH, 7/25/15, NPR: Newport Folk Festival)
    -INTERVIEW: Elijah Wald: how the guitar shaped – and didn’t shape – the world (Dr Ken Murray, 16 Jul 2019, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music)
    -INTERVIEW: Music Historian Explores Work of Blues Legend Robert Johnson (Voice of America, October 26, 2009)
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    -STUDY GUIDE: Dylan Goes Electric! (BooKey)
    -VIDEO: Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Live At Newport Folk Festival - 1965)
    -VIDEO: Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Live at Newport 1965)
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    -VIDEO ARCHIVES: Bob Dylan Newport 1965 (YouTube)
    -ESSAY: Newport Folk Festival Marks 50 Years Since Bob Dylan Went Electric: Fifty years later, Dylan's plugged-in performance is considered one of the most important events in rock history. (Associated Press, 07/19/2015)
    -ESSAY: Revisit Bob Dylan’s electric performance at Newport Folk Festival 50 years later: Revisit the start of a rock 'n' roll revolution (Michael Madden, July 26, 2015, Consequence)
    -ESSAY: Did Fans Really Boo Because Bob Dylan Went Electric at Newport? (Dave Lifton, Published: July 25, 2015, Ultimate Classic Rock)
    -ESSAY: Remembering When Bob Dylan Shocked The World By Going Electric, On This Day In 1965 (Rex Thomson, July 25th, 2024, Live for Live Music)
    -REVIEW: of Bob Dylan: Electric: American Writers Museum, Chicago, November 16, 2018-April 30, 2019 (Kenneth Daley, The Dylan Review)
    -ESSAY: What Really Happened the Night Dylan Went Electric? (Alan Light, Dec. 27th, 2024, NY Times)
    -ESSAY: The Birth of Bob Dylan: The iconic moment Dylan goes electric (Jeffery Peeno, 3 December 2019, Far Out)
    -ESSAY: July 25, 1965: Dylan Goes Electric at the Newport Folk Festival (Jess Righthand, July 23, 2010, Smithsonian)
    -ESSAY: The day Dylan went electric: ‘They certainly booed, I’ll tell you that’: Fifty-five years ago at the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan changed the direction of popular music. Mark Beaumont, 25 July 2020, Independent)
    -ESSAY: Why Bob Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance sparked controversy from friends and fans: 'He betrayed the cause' (Callie Ahlgrim Dec 26, 2024, Business Insider)
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    -READING GUIDE: Weekly Questions for “Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues” by Elijah Wald (Blues and Jazz Dance Book Club)
    -ARCHIVES: Newport Folk Festival (NPR)
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    -REVIEW ARCHIVE: Elijah Wald (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah wald (John Harris, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Anita Sethi, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Carl Wilson, Slate)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Timothy Farrington, WSJ)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Joseph Pescheel, Boston Globe)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Andy Gill, Independent
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Tony Clayton-Lea, Irish Times)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Helen Brown, The Telegraph)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Ted Lehmann, No Depression)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Peter Stone Brown, Counter Punch)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Jeff Strowe, PopMatters
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Mark Levine, Book List)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (You Do Hoodoo)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Mark Thompson, Blues Blast)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Luther Sp[oehr, HNN)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Bob Levin, Broad Street Review)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Simon Warner, Rock and the Beat Generation)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Michaelangelo Matos, Billboard)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Kirkville)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (NPR Book of the Day)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Gerald Peary, Arts Fuse)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Dorian Lynskey, Spectator Australia)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Tampa Bay Times)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Tyson Call, Slug)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Robert Loss, LA Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Dylan Goes Electric (Jan Gardner, Boston Globe)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: of 10 reasons why Bob Dylan's 1965 Newport show was the most important moment in rock history (Rob Hughes, Classic Rock)
    -REVIEW: of How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll by Elijah Wald (Nick Marino, Paste)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Jon Dennis, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Erik Himmelsbach, LATimes)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Malcolm Jones, Newsweek)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Roger Launius's Blog)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (NY Observer)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Margaret Moser, Austin Chronicle)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (louis P. Masur, PopMatters)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Joel Francis, The Daily Record)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Second Series)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Michael Cala, NY Journal of Books)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Bill Jones, Mantex)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Anthony Hutchison, Journal of American Studies)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Devin McKinney, BookForum)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Scottunder)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (George Grella, Brooklyn Rail)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll (Peter Keepnews, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald (Blaine Waide, The Journal of American Folklore)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (Brad’s All Vinyl Finds)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (Nick Lauro, The Drum Doctor)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (frank Matheis, Country Blues)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (C. Michael Bailey, All about Jazz)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (Eric Weisbard, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of Escaping the Delta (Richard Parks)
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    -REVIEW: of Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories. by Elijah Wald (Richard Parkinson, Americana uk)
    -REVIEW: of Jelly Roll Blues (Noah Schaffer, WBUR)
    -REVIEW: of Jelly Roll Blues (Garth Cartwright, Jazzwise)
    -REVIEW: of Jelly Roll Blues (Kirkus)
    -REVIEW: of Jelly Roll Blues
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    -REVIEW: of Narcocorrido by Elijah Wald (Josh kun, Boston Phoenix)
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