《And A Voice to Sing With》简介：

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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 one of the most extraordinary performers of our time.

《And A Voice to Sing With》摘录：

我们没有因为加布分开，没有因为我的婚外恋分手，尽管它是格外真实的，而非短暂的迷恋。我们也没有因为政治分手。我们想分手时，就分手了，因为无法忍受。我不想再试着成为一名妻子，而且我只属于自己，自那以后我一直是这样，偶尔被野餐、蜜月、旅行中的通宵狂欢、我的梦想间断。当我们在一起的动荡的三年生活迎来崩溃的终曲时，我所获得的深切体会，在十年之后我都能清楚地记起。我生来孤独，不可能和任何一个人生活在同一个屋檐下。这已经不再是个大问题了。有时候我会非常非常孤独。但我宁愿选择这种孤独，也不想承受无法成为你的妻子带来的失败和绝望感。