Joan Baez - And a Voice to Sing With
Title: Joan Baez – And A Voice to Sing with
Genre: Non Fiction – Memoir
Author: Joan Baez
Is the life story of one of the most charismatic and enduring figures of the 1960s – the former Queen of Folk whose “achingly pure soprano voice” and passionate commitment to the causes of peace and human rights mad her a legend in her time. Large Hardcover, Published by Century Hutchinson 1998. Very good condition.
"And a Voice to sing with" moves from the smoke-filled coffee houses of the 1950s, where Joan Baez first performed, to Mississippi in the early 60s where she marched against segreation with Martin Luther King. From the bomb shelters of Hanoi where she sat out Nixon's 1972 Christmas bombardment to refugee camps on the Borders of Cambodia's killing fields. From Woodstock where she sang, six months pregnant to crowds of thousands in the middle of the night to France, Spain and Italy where her concepts sparked near riots. From Argentina where she was teargassed and talked with mothers of the Disappeared to a small church in Poland and sang to the workers of Solidarity....
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