MTSU’s Center for Popular Music will host celebrated author and historian Elijah Wald on Wednesday, Nov. 18, to speak about Bob Dylan and his renowned electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Wald’s latest book, Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties, recounts and explores what really happened when Dylan plugged in his Fender Stratocaster and how the performance changed musical history. Wald will speak in the Student Union’s Parliamentary Room at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
