Byline: Laura T. Ryan Staff writer
As a music critic and historian, David Hajdu always assumed rock "n' roll was the acorn that sprouted the wide oak canopy of American postwar popular culture.
Now he knows better.
It was comic books.
Hajdu (HAY-doo) made the accidental discovery while researching his 2001 book, "Positively 4th Street," about the lives and cultural influence of four seminal folk singers from the 1950s and'60s: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Richard and ...
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