Folk singer Joan Baez’s music and political activism, along with figures like Bob Dylan, Tom Wolfe, Martin Luther King, and Timothy Leary (to name a handful of the time’s influencers) helped to define 1960s’ counterculture in America. The new, quality documentary “Joan Baez I Am a Noise,” serves to underline that fact.
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Joan Baez in full-on political activist mode in "Joan Baez I Am a Noise." Matt Heron/Magnolia Pictures
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