Plug it in!

Can there be a „true gospel“ in the age of the Internet? Footnotes on Bob Dylan, China and a changing world.

An update by Rüdiger Wischenbart

When Bob Dylan took out his electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he was booed. When he got back there recently, people yelled instead: “Plug it in!”

In China, the communist government imposes restrictions on content available over the Internet, banning what it does not want to see – just as the Folk fans did 37 years ago. So, what is it that makes the difference between a winning and a losing strategy in this struggle to define identities?

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