Before Nina Simone, before Aretha Franklin, before Bob Dylan and the Beatles, there was Joan Baez. With a big voice and an even bigger presence, from the We spoke with musician and activist Joan Baez about her new documentary,’ Joan Baez: I Am a Noise.’
Joan Baez at the Alabama State Capitol in 1965, from JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE, a Magnolia Pictures release. © Stephen Somerstein. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
My family is all gone. I couldn’t have done the delicate parts of this if my parents or my sisters were still here. Some of the sister stuff I learned, I don’t know if they’d ever be able to tell me how they really felt. It’s too difficult. I learned a lot. We had a few fisticuffs. If it was something I really wasn’t going to be able to handle, we’d make adjustments. There are some things there I didn’t want in. But that doesn’t matter. That’s me still trying to protect something. When I look at it in the context of the film, I see what it means to the film. The film is totally unique. It’s brilliantly put together. I don’t have any gripes. There are parts of it that make me uncomfortable. I didn’t really have any say in it.
The Mexican side of your heritage is touched on only a little bit in the beginning of the film. Why is that?
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