Before Bob Dylan became an icon, he was a young musician inventing himself in the Greenwich Village folk bohemia. In Bob Dylan: Through the Open Window, 1956–1963, acclaimed historian and Grammy-nominated Dylan scholar Sean Wilentz tells the extraordinary story of Dylan’s transformation from a teenage rock-and-roller in Minnesota into the startlingly original artist who changed American music. Drawing on rare and previously unheard recordings, photographs, documents, and years of research, Wilentz follows Dylan through the coffeehouses and apartments of the Village, recording studios and concert halls, and the friendships, rivalries, influences, and sudden creative breakthroughs that shaped his astonishing rise.
