And A Voice to Sing With
• The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series. Told often from Baez’s perspective, but supported by a rich performance and historical archive, the documentary centers on her career as a musician, power as an artist, those who influenced her, and those she championed. She will also be on a 27-city U.S. tour starting July 2009..\ • A musical force and a catalyst for social...
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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. Hers is a journey of the spirit, told with intimacy and passion as Baez shares her introduction to folk music and her baptism as its first female star in the coffee houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She recounts her musical and personal entwinement with Bob Dylan; her marriage to David Harris, and their painful breakup; and the joy she found upon the birth of her son, Gabriel.With a new introduction by acclaimed music critic Anthony DeCurtis, And a Voice to Sing With is the story of an American cultural icon. Marked by the openness and vulnerability that have touched us in her music, and the passion and integrity that have informed her politics, this is a disarmingly frank and stirring memoir of the life and work of oneof the most extraordinary performers of our time.
Introduction Anthony DeCurits xiPreface xxvPart 1 "The Kingdom of Childhood"1 "My Memory's Eye" 17Part 2 "Rider, Please Pass By" 171 "Fill Three Up My Loving Cup" 492 "Blue Jeans and Necklaces" 693 "Winds of the Old Days" 83Part 3 "Show Me The Horizon"1 "The Black Angel of Memphis" 1012 "Jonny Finally Got His Gun" 1153 "Hiroshima Oysters" 1334 "For a While on Dreams" 1465 "To Love and Music" 1636 "I Will Sing to You So Sweet" 166Part 4 "How Stark is The Here And Now"1 "Lying in a Bed of Roses" 1732 "Silence is Shame" 1793 "Dancing on Our Broken Chains" 1844 "Where Are You Now, My Son?" 1935 "Warriors of the Sun" 226Part 5 "Free At Last" 2371 Renaldo and Who? 2372 "Love Song to a Stranger" 2513 "No Nos Moveran" 2544 "For Sasha" 2645 "The Weary Mothers of the Earth" 268Part 6 "The Music Stopped In My Hand"1 "Blessed Are the Persecuted" 2732 "The Brave Will Go" 2823 "Motherhood, Music, and Moog Synthesizers" 1974-1979 291Part 7 "Ripping Along Toward Middle Age"1 "A Test of Time" 2992 "Recently I Was in France" 3043 "How Brightly Glows the Past" 3144 "Thalia's Ghost" 3235 "Honest Lullaby" 3256 "A Heartfeld Line of Two" 3307 "Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev" 3408 "We Are the World" 3539 "Gulf Winds" 370Epilogue 373
\ From the Publisher"[A]n eyewitness' testimony of watching — indeed, making — cultural history. Eloquent and compassionate, Joan Baez has stunned millions with the purity of her voice; she has also acted unwaveringly on her non-party-line beliefs, and it's fitting that her memoir would offer its own share of provocation." — Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe\ "[A] revealing autobiography...[H]er honesty and ideals are appealing, and in her life story one can see the passage of an artistic Everyman." — Barbara Goldsmith, The New York Times Book Review\ \ \
