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Bob Dylan in performance : song, stage, and screen
This study of Bob Dylan's art employs a performance studies lens, exploring the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Chapters focus on the relationship of Dylan's recorded performances to the historical bardic role, to the American popular song tradition, and to rock music culture. His uses of both stage and studio to shape his performances are explored, as are his forays into cinema. Special consideration is given to his vocal performances and to his use of particular personae as a performer. The full scope of Dylan's body of work to date is situated in terms of the influences that have shaped his performances and the ways these performances have shaped contemporary popular music.
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Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's Time Out of Mind
This book studies Bob Dylan's album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.
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Bob Dylan : American troubadour
\"With each year, new books appear on Bob Dylan, attesting to his continuing importance as a major figure in American music and culture. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book on Dylan to look at his entire career, from his first album to his most recent, Tempest, released 50 years later in 2012. In a brief compass, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan's entire corpus, placing full scope of Dylan's career in the context of its times in order to assess the relationship of Dylan's music to contemporary American culture. Each chapter addresses a particular phase of Dylan's career, taking its cue from events in Dylan's life and from the collective experiences that shaped the times. As the artist who famously proclaimed \"the times, they are a-changin',\" Dylan was never static as an artist, his music altering as the times changed. In Bob Dylan: American Troubadour, Donald Brown follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory songs ; from his influential rock albums of the mid-'60s to his adaptations of Country music ; from his three very different tours in the 1970s to his \"born again\" period as a proselytizer for Christ, to his frustrations as a recording and performing artist in the 1980s ; from his retrospective importance in the Nineties to the refreshingly vital albums he has been producing in the 21st century. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour will engage not only Dylan fans and students of his work but those interested American popular music, history, and culture\"--Back cover.
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Roadmap for the Heads: Thoughts on Bob Dylan and the Border
A short story is presented.
Journal Article
I'm Not There
An examination of director Todd Haynes and his Bob Dylan
biopic. As the first and only Bob Dylan \"biopic,\" I'm
Not There caused a stir when released in 2007. Offering a
surreal retelling of moments from Dylan's life and career, the film
is perhaps best known for its distinctive approach to casting,
including Cate Blanchett and Marcus Carl Franklin, a Black child
actor, as versions of Dylan though none of the characters bear his
name. Greenlit by Bob Dylan himself, the film uses Dylan's music as
a score, a triumph for famed queer filmmaker Todd Haynes after
encountering issues with copyright in previous projects.
Noah Tsika eloquently characterizes all the ways that Dylan and
Haynes harmonize in their methods and sensibilities, interpreting
the rule-breaking film as a biography that refuses chronology,
disdains factual accuracy, flirts with libel, and cannibalizes
Western cinema. Fitting the film's inspiration, creation, and
reception alongside its continuing afterlife, Tsika examines
Dylan's music in the film through the context of intellectual
property, raising questions about who owns artistic material and
artistic identities and how such material can be reused and
repurposed. Tsika's adventurous analysis touches on gender, race,
queerness, celebrity, popular culture, and the law, while offering
much to Haynes and Dylan fans alike.
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Dylanologists : adventures in the land of Bob
An analysis of Bob Dylan fandom that shares insights into the music artist's influential role in American culture, contrasting the activities of particularly devout fans against Dylan's intensely private nature.
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Bob dylan
Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music comment on their cultural, political, and even economic situation, reflecting the technological advances, psychological concerns, religious feelings, and artistic trends of their times. Whether you are a professional musician or regular listener, diehard fan or music student, titles in the Tempo series are the ideal introduction to major pop and rock artists and the music they produced and their cultural and musical impact on society. With each year, new books appear on Bob Dylan, attesting to his continuing importance as a major figure in American music and culture. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book on Dylan to look at his entire career, from his first album to his most recent, Tempest, released 50 years later in 2012. In a brief compass, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan’s entire corpus, placing full scope of Dylan’s career in the context of its times in order to assess the relationship of Dylan's music to contemporary American culture. Each chapter addresses a particular phase of Dylan’s career, taking its cue from events in Dylan’s life and from the collective experiences that shaped the times. As the artist who famously proclaimed “the times, they are a-changin’,” Dylan was never static as an artist, his music altering as the times changed. In Bob Dylan: American Troubadour, Donald Brown follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory songs; from his influential rock albums of the mid-‘60s to his adaptations of Country music; from his three very different tours in the 1970s to his “born again” period as a proselytizer for Christ, to his frustrations as a recording and performing artist in the 1980s; from his retrospective importance in the Nineties to the refreshingly vital albums he has been producing in the 21st century. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour will engage not only Dylan fans and students of his work but those interested American popular music, history, and culture. Anyone who has been touched, challenged or surprised by a Dylan song, who would like to know more about this long and fascinating career, who wants to discover Dylan within his context will find in Bob Dylan: American Troubadour a concise and informed critical overview of Dylan’s music and his place in the American musical landscape.
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Bob Dylan : mixing up the medicine
'Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine' is the landmark magnum opus every Bob Dylan fan has been waiting for since the 60s. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of previously unseen photographs and spanning from Dylan's childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, to the Nobel Prize for Literature and beyond, this is a treasure trove of vast interest to Bob Dylan musical fans as well as a broader cultural audience.
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