Screen LibraryThe world of Bob Dylan /
"Is there any writer or performer more haunting-and more haunted-than Bob Dylan? We recognize his songs, his vision, his inventiveness, his poetry, and especially that distinctive voice nearly everywhere: in music and film, popular culture and politics, global protest movements and intimate mom...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Is there any writer or performer more haunting-and more haunted-than Bob Dylan? We recognize his songs, his vision, his inventiveness, his poetry, and especially that distinctive voice nearly everywhere: in music and film, popular culture and politics, global protest movements and intimate moments of self-reflection. As he now turns eighty, it's a shock to realize that, for most us, Dylan has always been there, singing, touring, laughing, snarling, and sometimes even hawking whiskey and underwear. Like the members of the Nobel committee that awarded him the world's most important cultural prize, we know he is one of the world's most influential artists. But which Dylan is it? The folk-singing activist who shared the stage with Dr. King at the March on Washington? The rocker in Ray Bans and a leather jacket who faced down hostile crowds by ordering his band to 'play it fucking loud?' Is it the country boy who went Nashville and befriended Johnny Cash? Or the Beat-inspired hipster who took to the road with a ramshackle medicine show? The Christian convert? The brilliant curator of folk and blues? The Sinatra-inspired crooner? Or the weary old man who's 'standin' in the doorway cryin'?'"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 351 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108499514 1108499511 9781108730778 1108730779 |
| Index Number: | ML420 |
| CLC: | J605.712 |
| Call Number: | J605.712/W927 |
| Contents: |
Time to say goodbye again / Creative life. A chronology of Bob Dylan's life / The biographies / Songwriting / The singles : A playlist for framing Dylan's recording art / Musical contexts. Folk music / The blues : "Kill everybody ever done me wrong" / Gospel music / Country music : Dylan, Cash, and the projection of authenticity / Rock music / Roots music : Born in a basement / The Great American Songbook : "Better duck down the [Tin Pan] Alley way, lookin' for a new friend" / Cultural contexts. American literature / World literature / The beats / Theatre / Visual arts : Goya's kiss / Borrowing / Judaism : Saturnine melancholy and Dylan's Jewish gnosis / Christianity : An exegesis of modern times / Political contexts. The civil rights movement / The counterculture / Gender and sexuality : Bob Dylan's body / Justice / Reception and legacy. The Bob Dylan brand / The Nobel Prize : The dramaturgy of consecration / Dylan : Stardom and fandom / The Bob Dylan Archive® / |