The Dixie Virgin Chronicles: Joanna

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Beginning in Baez has had several successful long-term engagements as a lead character at San Francisco's Teatro ZinZanni. Her album, Dark Chords on a Big Guitar , featured songs by composers half her age, while a November performance at New York's Bowery Ballroom was recorded for a live release, Bowery Songs. On October 8 , Baez appeared as a special surprise guest at the opening ceremony of the Forum international conference in Prague. Baez' performance was kept secret from former President Vaclav Havel until the moment she appeared onstage.

Havel remains a great admirer of both Baez and her work. During Baez' next visit to Prague, in April , the two met again when Baez performed in front of a sell-out house at the Lucerna hall, a building erected by Havel's grandfather.

As Proper is a European label, it is presumed the reissue will only be available in European territories although available to others over the internet. Mellencamp has called the album a " Woody Guthrie rock album" heavily influenced by albums from the '60s which is why he invited an icon of that era to appear with him. The day after she received the honor, she appeared at the Grammy ceremony and introduced a performance by The Dixie Chicks. Baez is currently recording a new album produced by Steve Earle to be released in the fall of In , Baez first heard a young Martin Luther King, Jr speak about nonviolence , civil rights and social change , and the speech brought tears to her eyes.

Several years later, the two became friends, later marching and demonstrating together on numerous occasions.

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In , at age 16, Joan committed her first act of civil disobedience by refusing to leave her Palo Alto Senior High School classroom in northern California for an air-raid drill. After the bells rang, students were to leave the school, make their way to their home air-raid shelters , and pretend they were surviving an atomic blast. Protesting what she believed to be misleading government propaganda , Baez refused to leave her seat when instructed and continued reading a book.

For this act she was punished by school officials, and was ostracized by the local population for being a supposed " communist infiltrator". The early years of Joan's career saw the Civil Rights movement in the United States become a prominent issue. Jude as they camped the night before arriving in Montgomery. Her recording of the song "Birmingham Sunday" written by her brother-in-law, Richard Farina , was used on the soundtrack of "Four Little Girls," Spike Lee's film about the four young victims killed in the bombing of an African American church by racists in Her performance of " We Shall Overcome ," the civil rights anthem written and popularized by Pete Seeger , at Martin Luther King 's March on Washington permanently linked her to the song.

In , Joan Baez stood in the fields alongside Cesar Chavez and California's migrant farm workers as they fought for fair wages and safe working conditions and performed at a benefit on behalf of the United Farmworkers Union UFW in December of that year; in , she was at Chavez's side during his day fast to draw attention to the farmworkers' struggle and can be seen singing "We Shall Overcome" during that fast in the film about the UFW, "Si Se Puede" "It can be done".

Highly visible in civil rights marches, she became more vocal about her disagreement with the Vietnam War. In , she publicly endorsed resisting taxes by withholding sixty percent, the figure commonly determined to fund the military, of her income taxes. She founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence in and encouraged draft resistance at her concerts.

Arrested twice in [9] for blocking the entrance of the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California, she spent over a month in jail. She was a frequent participant in anti-war marches and rallies, including numerous protests in New York organized by the Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, starting with the March Fifth Avenue Peace Parade, [10] a free concert at the Washington Monument which had been opposed by the conservative Daughters of the American Revolution and which attracted a crowd of 30, to hear her anti-war message, [11] the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam protests and many others, culminating in Phil Ochs' "The War is Over" celebration in New York in May During Christmas of , she joined a peace delegation traveling to North Vietnam , both to address human rights in the region, as well as to deliver Christmas mail to American POW 's.

During her time there, she was caught in the U. She also devoted a substantial amount of her time in the early s to helping establish a U. Her disquiet at the human rights violations of communist Vietnam made her increasingly critical of its government and she organized the publication, on May 30, , of a full-page advertisement, published in four major U. In a letter of response, Jane Fonda said she was unable to substantiate the "claims" Baez made regarding the atrocities being committed by the Khmer Rouge. Her experiences regarding Vietnam's human rights violations ultimately led Baez to found her own human rights group, Humanitas International, whose focus was to target oppression wherever it occurred, criticizing right and left wing regimes equally.

She toured Chile , Brazil and Argentina in , but was prevented from performing in any of the three countries, for fear her criticism of their human rights practices would reach mass audiences if she were given a podium. While there, she was surveiled and subjected to death threats. In a second trip to Southeast Asia , Baez assisted in an effort to take food and medicine into the western regions of Cambodia, and participated in a United Nations Humanitarian Conference on Kampuchea Cambodia. At the annual dinner event they honored her for her lifetime of work against violence of all kinds.

Baez has also been prominent in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. In , she performed at several benefit concerts to defeat Proposition 6 "the Briggs Initiative" , which proposed banning all openly gay people from teaching in the public schools of California. Later that same year, she participated in memorial marches for the assassinated San Francisco city supervisor, openly gay Harvey Milk.

Her song "Altar Boy and the Thief" from 's Blowin' Away was written as a dedication to her gay fanbase. On Earth Day, , Baez and her friend Bonnie Raitt were hoisted by a giant crane to the top of a redwood tree to visit environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill , [14] who was camped out in the ancient tree in order to protect it from loggers. In early , Baez performed at two rallies of hundreds of thousands of people in San Francisco protesting the U. In the summer of , she joined Michael Moore 's "Slacker Uprising Tour" on American college campuses, encouraging young people to get out and vote for peace candidates in the upcoming national election.

She had previously performed the same song at San Quentin at the vigil protesting the execution of Robert Alton Harris, the first man to be executed in California after the death penalty was reinstated. On May 23, , Baez once again joined Julia "Butterfly" Hill, this time in a "tree sit" in a giant tree on the site of the South Central Farm in a poor neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.

Baez and Hill were hoisted into the tree, where they remained overnight. The women, in addition to many other activists and celebrities, were protesting the imminent eviction of the community farmers and demolition of the site, which is the largest urban farm in the state.

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She noted that "Through all those years, I chose not to engage in party politics At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Baez' first real boyfriend—and first lover—was a young man by the name of Michael New whom she met at college.

Years later in , he inspired her song "Michael. The two spent a considerable amount of time together, but Baez was unable to balance her blossoming career and her relationship. The two bickered and made love back and forth, but it was apparent to Baez that Michael was beginning to resent her success and newfound local celebrity.

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One night she saw him kissing another woman on a street corner. The relationship remained intact for several years, long after the two moved to California together in By the time of Dylan's tour of the United Kingdom , their relationship had slowly begun to fizzle out after having been romantically involved off-and-on for nearly two years.

The tour and simultaneous disintegration of Baez and Dylan's relationship was documented in the rock-doc Dont Look Back [ sic ]. Although bad blood existed between the two for a short time, the pair managed to bury the hatchet and tour together as part of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in and Dylan and Baez plus Carlos Santana toured together again in Her later reflections on this relationship appear in Martin Scorsese 's documentary No Direction Home.

In October , Baez, her mother, and nearly seventy other women had been arrested for supporting young men who refused military induction. They were incarcerated in the Santa Rita Jail , and it was here that Baez met David Harris , who was kept on the men's side but who still managed to visit with Baez regularly. The two formed a close bond upon their release and Baez moved into his draft resistance commune in the hills above Stanford. The pair had only known each other for three months when they decided to wed.

After confirming the news to the Associated Press , media outlets began dedicating ample press to the impending nuptials at one point, Time magazine referred to it as the "Wedding of the Century. After finding a pacifist preacher, a church outfitted with peace signs and perfecting a blend of Episcopalian and Quaker wedding vows, Baez and Harris married in New York City.

Baez's good friend and fellow folkie Judy Collins sang at the ceremony. After the wedding, Joan Baez-Harris and her husband moved into a home in the Los Altos Hills on 10 acres of land called Struggle Mountain, part of a commune, where they tended gardens and were strict vegetarians. A short time later, Harris refused induction and was indicted.

On July 15, , a patrol car came rumbling up to Struggle Mountain and carried Harris away, leaving Baez alone—and pregnant. She would be very visibly pregnant in public in the months that followed, most notably at the Woodstock festival, where she performed a handful of songs in the early morning. Their son, Gabriel Harris, was born in December Harris was released from his Texas prison and the relationship began to dissolve amicably and the couple divorced in , sharing custody of Gabriel, who lived primarily with his mother.

She has never remarried. She dated Apple Computer cofounder Steve Jobs during the late s and early '80s. She was a frequent authorized guest in the highly-secret lab of the Macintosh project, at a time when most Apple employees were refused admission. It is believed that Jobs asked her to marry him and that she refused.

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During the concert's finale, she spontaneously danced on stage with a band of African percussionists. On August 2, , Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival. How Sweet the Sound. It was produced and directed by Mary Wharton. Before the ceremony, Anthony Mason spoke to her about the honor, asking her how it felt to be in the Rock and Roll Hall Fame, to which she replied, "A little bit silly but really nice. On 8 November , Baez announced that in conjunction with her tour of Europe she would release a new studio album entitled Whistle Down The Wind produced by Joe Henry.

This will be her first new record since 's Day After Tomorrow released almost a decade earlier.

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In , at age 17, Baez committed her first act of civil disobedience as a conscientious objector by refusing to leave her Palo Alto High School classroom in Palo Alto, California for an air-raid drill. In , Baez announced that she would be opening a school to teach nonviolent protest. Highly visible in civil-rights marches, Baez became more vocal about her disagreement with the Vietnam War. In , she publicly endorsed resisting taxes by withholding sixty percent of her income taxes.

In , she founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence along with her mentor Sandperl and encouraged draft resistance at her concerts. In , Baez's autobiography, Daybreak , was released. It is the most detailed report of her life through and outlined her anti-war position, dedicating the book to men facing imprisonment for resisting the draft. Baez was arrested twice in [60] for blocking the entrance of the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California, and spent over a month in jail.

See also David Harris section below. During the Christmas season , Baez joined a peace delegation traveling to North Vietnam, both to address human rights in the region, and to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war. During her time there, she was caught in the U. Her disquiet at the human-rights violations of communist Vietnam made her increasingly critical of its government and she organized the May 30, , publication of a full-page advertisement published in four major U.

Her one-time anti-war ally, Jane Fonda , refused to join in Baez's criticism of Hanoi, [65] [66] [67] leading to what was publicly described as a feud between the two. Baez was instrumental in founding the USA section of Amnesty International in the s, and has remained an active supporter of the organization. In , she was awarded the Thomas Merton Award for her ongoing activism. She toured Chile, Brazil and Argentina in , but was prevented from performing in any of the three countries, for fear her criticism of their human-rights practices would reach mass audiences if she were given a podium.

While there, she was kept under surveillance and subjected to death threats. In , after the Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing, Baez wrote and released the song "China" to condemn the Chinese government for its violent and bloody crackdown on thousands of student protesters who called for establishment of democratic republicanism. In a second trip to Southeast Asia, Baez assisted in an effort to take food and medicine into the western regions of Cambodia, and participated in a United Nations Humanitarian Conference on Kampuchea.

At the annual dinner event, they honored her for her lifetime of work against violence of all kinds. At each concert, Baez informs the audience about the organizations' efforts to exhonerate the wrongfully convicted and reform the system to prevent such incidents. She subsequently lent her prestige to the campaign opposing the execution of Troy Davis by the State of Georgia. Baez has also been prominent in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. In , she performed at several benefit concerts to defeat the Briggs Initiative, which proposed banning all gay people from teaching in the public schools of California.

Later that same year, she participated in memorial marches for the assassinated San Francisco city supervisor, Harvey Milk, who was openly gay. Her song "Altar Boy and the Thief" from Blowin' Away was written as a dedication to her gay fanbase. On June 25, , Baez created a special version of "We Shall Overcome" [74] with a few lines of Persian lyrics in support of peaceful protests by Iranian people. She recorded it in her home and posted the video on YouTube [75] and on her personal website. In early , Baez performed at two rallies of hundreds of thousands of people in San Francisco protesting the U.

In the summer of , Baez joined Michael Moore's "Slacker Uprising Tour" on American college campuses, encouraging young people to get out and vote for peace candidates in the upcoming national election. On May 23, , Baez once again joined Julia "Butterfly" Hill, this time in a "tree sit" in a giant tree on the site of the South Central Farm in a poor neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California. Baez and Hill were hoisted into the tree, where they remained overnight. The women, in addition to many other activists and celebrities, were protesting the imminent eviction of the community farmers and demolition of the site, which is the largest urban farm in the state.

Throughout most of her career, Baez remained apprehensive about involving herself in party politics. At this time, however, changing that posture feels like the responsible thing to do. If anyone can navigate the contaminated waters of Washington, lift up the poor, and appeal to the rich to share their wealth, it is Sen. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although a highly political figure throughout most of her career, Baez had never publicly endorsed a major political party candidate prior to Obama.

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However, after Obama was elected, she expressed that she would likely never do so again, saying in a interview in The Huffington Post that "In some ways I'm disappointed, but in some ways it was silly to expect more. If he had taken his brilliance, his eloquence, his toughness and not run for office he could have led a movement. Once he got in the Oval Office he couldn't do anything. She performed at the White House on February 10, , as part of an evening celebrating the music associated with the civil rights movement, performing "We Shall Overcome".

Baez was presented with the first award in recognition of her human rights work with Amnesty International and beyond, and the inspiration she has given activists around the world. In future years, the award is to be presented to an artist — music, film, sculpture, paint or other medium — who has similarly helped advance human rights.

On November 11, , Baez played as part of a musical concert for the protestors at Occupy Wall Street. Baez's first real boyfriend was Michael New, a young man whom she met at her college.

Years later in , he inspired her song "Michael". New was a fellow student from Trinidad who, like Baez, attended classes only occasionally. The two spent a considerable amount of time together, but Baez was unable to balance her blossoming career and her relationship. The two bickered and made up repeatedly, but it was apparent to Baez that New was beginning to resent her success and new-found local celebrity. One night she saw him kissing another woman on a street corner. Despite this, the relationship remained intact for several years, long after the two moved to California together in At the time, Baez had already released her debut album and her popularity as the emerging "Queen of Folk" was on the rise.

Baez was initially unimpressed with the "urban hillbilly", but was impressed with one of Dylan's first compositions, "Song to Woody" and remarked that she would like to record it. At the start, Dylan was more interested in Baez's younger sister Mimi, but under the glare of media scrutiny that began to surround Baez and Dylan, their relationship began to develop into something more.

By , Baez had already released three albums, two of which had been certified gold, and she invited Dylan on stage to perform alongside her at the Newport Folk Festival. The two performed the Dylan composition "With God on Our Side", a performance that set the stage for many more duets like it in the months and years to come. Typically while on tour, Baez would invite Dylan to sing on stage partly by himself and partly with her, much to the chagrin of her fans.

Before meeting Dylan, Baez's topical songs were very few: Baez would later say that Dylan's songs seemed to update the topics of protest and justice. By the time of Dylan's tour of the UK, their relationship had slowly begun to fizzle out after they had been romantically involved off and on for nearly two years. The tour and simultaneous disintegration of their relationship was documented in D.

Pennebaker's documentary film Dont Look Back Baez toured with Dylan as a performer on his Rolling Thunder Revue in — Dylan and Baez toured together again in along with Carlos Santana. Baez wrote and composed at least three songs that were specifically about Dylan. The references to Baez in Dylan's songs are far less clear. Baez herself has suggested that she was the subject of both "Visions of Johanna" and "Mama, You Been on My Mind", although the latter was more likely about his relationship with Suze Rotolo.

As for "Visions of Johanna", "She Belongs to Me", and other songs alleged to have been written about Baez, neither Dylan nor biographers such as Clinton Heylin and Michael Gray have had anything definitive to say, either way, regarding the subject of these songs. In October , Baez and her mother, along with nearly 70 other women, were arrested at the Oakland, California, Armed Forces Induction Center for blocking its doorways to prevent entrance by young inductees, and in support of young men who refused military induction.

They were incarcerated in the Santa Rita Jail, and it was here that Baez met David Harris, who was kept on the men's side but who still managed to visit with Baez regularly. The two formed a close bond upon their release and Baez moved into his draft-resistance commune in the hills above Stanford, California. The pair had known each other for three months when they decided to wed.

After confirming the news to Associated Press, media outlets began dedicating ample press to the impending nuptials at one point, Time magazine referred to the event as the "Wedding of the Century". After finding a pacifist preacher and a church outfitted with peace signs and writing a blend of Episcopalian and Quaker wedding vows, Baez and Harris married in New York City on March 26, Her friend Judy Collins sang at the ceremony. A short time later, Harris refused induction into the armed forces and was indicted. On July 16, , Harris was taken by federal marshals to prison. The documentary film Carry It On was produced during this period, and was released in Their son Gabriel was born on December 2, Harris was released from Texas prison after 15 months, but the relationship began to dissolve and the couple divorced amicably in They shared custody of Gabriel, who lived primarily with Baez.

Their son Gabriel is a drummer and occasionally tours with his mother. He has a daughter Jasmine who also sang with Joan Baez at Kidztock in Baez dated Apple Computer cofounder Steve Jobs during the early s. After Jobs' death, Baez spoke fondly about him, stating that even after the relationship had ended the two remained friends, with Jobs having visited Baez shortly before his death, and stating that "Steve had a very sweet side, even if he was as.

Baez is a resident of Woodside, California, where she lived with her mother until the latter's death, aged , in [19] in a house that has a backyard tree house in which she spends time meditating, writing, and "being close to nature". Joan Baez From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. College music scene in Massachusetts In , her father accepted a faculty position at MIT, and moved his family to Massachusetts.

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Retrieved June 17, How Sweet The Sound". Retrieved December 17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The passage about that Pete Seeger concert's effect on Baez starts on p. The concert was in at Palo Alto High School. It was a fundraiser for the California Democratic Party. Retrieved August 1, And a Voice to Sing With: Pop discovers folk music. Retrieved November 12, And A Voice to Sing With , pp 61— How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n Roll: Baugess — The Encyclopedia of the Sixties: The People Behind Today's Headlines — Page 17 "With her pure, three-octave soprano voice, her long hair and natural good looks, and her unpretentious presence, she came to earn the nickname "Madonna" because she represented the "Earth Mother" for the s generation.

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