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Bob Dylan and the creative leap that transformed modern music

  • Written by Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music Studies, East Tennessee State University
imageDylan and singer-songwriter Mimi Farina relax at the Viking Hotel in Newport, R.I., in July 1964.John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images

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