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The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Mimi Baez; and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village; fell into love; and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960sWhen Bob Dylan; age twenty-five; wrecked his motorcycle on the side of a road near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye; he was recognized as a genius; a youth idol; and the authentic voice of the counterculture: and Greenwich Village; where he first made his mark as a protest singer with an acid wit and a barbwire throat; was unquestionably the center of youth culture.So embedded are Dylan and the Village in the legend of the Sixties--one of the most powerful legends we have these days--that it is easy to forget how it all came about. In Positively Fourth Street; David Hajdu; whose 1995 biography of jazz composer Billy Strayhorn was the best and most popular music book in many seasons; tells the story of the emergence of folk music from cult practice to popular and enduring art form as the story of a colorful foursome: not only Dylan but his part-time lover Joan Baez - the first voice of the new generation; her sister Mimi - beautiful; haunted; and an artist in her own right; and her husband Richard Farina; a comic novelist (Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me) who invented the worldliwise bohemian persona that Dylan adopted--some say stole--and made as his own.The story begins in the plain Baez split-level house in a Boston suburb; moves to the Cambridge folk scene; Cornell University (where Farina ran with Thomas Pynchon); and the University of Minnesota (where Robert Zimmerman christened himself Bob Dylan and swapped his electric guitar for an acoustic and a harmonica rack) before the four protagonists converge in New York.Based on extensive new interviews and full of surprising revelations; Positively Fourth Street is that rare book with a new story to tell about the 1960s. It is; in a sense; a book about the Sixties before they were the Sixties--about how the decade and all that it is now associated with it were created in a fit of collective inspiration; with an energy and creativity that David Hajdu captures on the page as if for the first time.