Známá americká umělkyně, v letech 196–1964 první přítelkyně Boba Dylana, mající silný vliv na jeho hudbu během tohoto období, popisuje ve své knize nelehké dětství v 50. letech minulého století, čas strávený s Dylanem a dalšími osobnostmi folkové hudby v bohémské čtvrti Greenwich Village, jakož i zrod klubové scény, Dylanův umělecký kvas té doby, peripetie vzniku mnohých jeho světově známých písní, vzniku a natáčení alba proslaveného mimo jiné fotografií začínajícího písničkáře a jeho tehdejší dívky. Kniha je základním příspěvkem k poznání základů dějin amerického folkového hnutí, u jehož vzniku figurují vedle nejslavnějšího Dylana i Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baezová, Ian a Sylvia Tysonovi a další. Je doplněna jmenným a názvovým rejstříkem, jakož i bohatou fotografickou přílohou.
Erinnerungen an Greenwich Village in den Sechzigern
Sie war 17 und er gerade 20 Jahre alt, als sich Suze Rotolo und Bob Dylan 1961 kennenlernten und ineinander verliebten. In ihren 2006 in Amerika erschienenen und schnell zum Bestseller avancierten Erinnerungen beschreibt die Autorin ihren Bezirk Greenwich Village in der wilden Zeit der 60er-Jahre und ihre romantische Liebesbeziehung zu Bob Dylan. Drei Jahre war sie die Frau an seiner Seite, sie ist das berühmte Covergirl auf seiner 2. LP »Freewheeling Bob«. Suze Rotolo erzählt wie aus Robert A. Zimmerman Bob Dylan wurde und schildert darüber hinaus die Träume und Hoffnungen einer ganzen Generation. Ihre bewegenden Erinnerungen zeichnen ein farbiges Bild vom Entstehen einer bald weltumgreifenden Protestbewegung. Sie lässt uns an den Momenten teilhaben, in denen sich die Kunst- und Musikszene Greenwich Villages mit der Politikbewegung vermischte und erzählt, wie Bob Dylan einer ihrer einflussreichsten Köpfe wurde. Gemeinsam traten sie ein für ein besseres, freieres und gerechteres Leben in den USA und anderswo.
<b>A great read for fans of the Coen brothers' film, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS </b><i> A Freewheelin’ Time</i> is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him. A shy girl from Queens, Suze Rotolo was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists. Growing up at the start of the Cold War and during McCarthyism, she inevitably became an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. Her childhood was turbulent, but Suze found solace in poetry, art, and music. In Washington Square Park, in Greenwich Village, she encountered like-minded friends who were also politically active. Then one hot day in July 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, a rising young musician, at a folk concert at Riverside Church. She was seventeen, he was twenty; they were young, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan was transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation. Suze Rotolo’s story is rich in character and setting, filled with vivid memories of those tumultuous years of dramatic change and poignantly rising expectations when art, culture, and politics all seemed to be conspiring to bring our country a better, freer, richer, and more equitable life. She writes of her involvement with the civil rights movement and describes the sometimes frustrating experience of being a woman in a male-dominated culture, before women’s liberation changed the rules for the better. And she tells the wonderfully romantic story of her sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressures of growing fame. <i>A Freewheelin’ Time</i> is a vibrant, moving memoir of a hopeful time and place and of a vital subculture at its most creative. It communicates the excitement of youth, the heartbreak of young love, and the struggles for a brighter future.
‘I met Bob Dylan in 1961 when I was seventeen years old and he was twenty…’ So begins the acclaimed memoir of Suze Rotolo, the woman who was Bob Dylan’s girlfriend in the early sixties. She reveals the romantic story of their sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressure of Dylan’s growing fame. Despite having never previously raised her head above the parapet to write about her time with him, people are probably more familiar with Rotolo than they might think: it is she who is pictured arm in arm with Dylan on the iconic sleeve of his 1963 sophomore album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Set during the time when Dylan was writing the soundtrack to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, this is a unique and remarkable narrative of a place and time when art, culture and politics all seemed to be conspiring to make America a freer, more equitable place. With a supporting cast that includes Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Andy Warhol, this is essential reading for Dylan fans and anyone fascinated by the Sixties.
'I met Bob Dylan in 1961 when I was seventeen years old and he was twenty ... ' Thus begins Suze Rotolo's wonderfully romantic story of their sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressure of Dylan's growing fame. It is Rotolo who is pictured with Dylan on the famous and iconic sleeve of his album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. She has never written about her time with him, and this memoir is therefore very eagerly anticipated. Set during the time when Dylan was writing the soundtrack to the cultural revolution of the 1960s, this is a unique and remarkable nar
