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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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It Ain't Me, Babe
Bob Dylan has always been something of a mystery. He has worn a variety of masks that have delighted, puzzled, amused and angered his many audiences. Andrea Cossu offers a strikingly fresh explanation of Dylan and the transformations he has made throughout his career. Cossu's descriptions of key Dylan performances explain how he forged authenticity through performance, and how the various attempts to make 'Bob Dylan' have often involved the interaction between the artist, his public image and his many audiences. It Ain't Me Babe offers a striking vision of how Dylan built his image and learned to live with its burden, painting a unique and coherent new portrait of the artist.
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Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969 : 50th anniversary festival special
\"2019 marks the golden anniversary of the mass musical gatherings that saw the hippie generation at their 1969 zenith. Two events stand out, staged within days of each other that magical August: there was Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival of Music. Woodstock drew 400,000 fans and a quality bill that was a who's who of contemporary talent, all bar the main man the organisers hoped to lure on the doorstep of his home, Bob Dylan. Instead, Dylan opted to headline at the Isle of Wight, in front of close to 200,000 adoring fans. Bill Bradshaw celebrates the events of that summer 50 years on, and how the Isle of Wight staged what was then the nation's biggest festival. Eye-witness accounts from fans, artists, and the promoters bring alive that gilded summer and how it influenced both Dylan and the rock festival movement for generations to come\"--Back cover.
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The Performed-Out Fermata from the 1920s to Bob Dylan 1
In his writing on Woody Guthrie's music, Pete Seeger encourages an awareness of early American folk songs-particularly the tracks included on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Seeger also points to a particular type of \"irregularity\" in Guthrie's performances, in which a melody note is unexpectedly held over continued guitar strumming. These long-held melody notes demonstrate the rhetorical technique I explore in this article, the performed-out fermata, which I theorize in connection with the concept of \"composed-out fermatas\" as they are observed in Classical-period orchestral music. Using Woody Guthrie songs alongside tracks from Smith's Anthology, I propose two types of performed-out fermatas (mid-phrase and anacrusis-type) and the related technique of elongated harmonic zones as ways that artists added interest and aliveness to their strophic song performances. I then explore how this important metric rhetoric of the folk revival was transmitted to and kept alive by Bob Dylan in the 1960s, demonstrating a thread of lasting influence between early twentieth-century song recordings and the future of American popular songwriting.
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Catching Geniuses at Work: Notes on the Origins of Two Great Songs
In addition to \"Answer Me, My Love,\" disc two of The Nat King Cole Story also features another great love song, \"Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup,' and McCartney probably heard them at the same time. Despite his difficulties with language, the man cleverly rhymes French and English words: \"beaucoup\" and \"do\" in \"Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup\" and the aforementioned \"Michelle\" and \"belle\" in \"Michelle\" Sometimes, but not often, artists create something that is a radical departure from what they've done before. [...]Michelle\" is not the only Beatles song in which McCartney took a concept from a song by a popular crooner and made a very different song out of it. Lennon-McCartney may also have adapted the basic idea of \"Some Enchanted Evening,\" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, which was adapted for film in 1958, and which they probably saw in the early '60s, about the time when McCartney was listening to Nat King Cole. Any song by Nat King Cole or Johnny Mathis or Rodgers and Hammerstein sounds very different from any song by the Beatles, but the ability to sense thematic possibilities in a song and then make something very different out of it is a hallmark of talent.
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Bob's Beat: Dylan, A Poet among Poets
This essay explores the literary resonances of the Nobel Prize committee's 2016 citation of Bob Dylan's work \"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.\" That \"new poetic expression\" has grown out of and developed through a spirit of iconoclasm and estrangement very much in the American grain, and it runs through not only the American folk \"song tradition\" but through the Beat Generation of writers, even as the shape-changing troubadour-poet never was, nor would he ever become a full-fledged, card-carrying Beat poet, nor a traditional poet of any sort, as he became a poet among poets on the road, finally, to becoming Bob Dylan, or rather to creating Dylan, Nobel laureate.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice
Buffy Sainte-Marie is a Cree singer-songwriter who emerged in the folk-inspired Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene in the mid-1960s. From her positionality as an Indigenous woman, Sainte-Marie wrote protest music (“activist songs”) on topics including antiwar themes and issues facing Native Americans. Her provocative 1966 activist song “My Country ’Tis of Thy People You’re Dying” is an anthem to decolonization that aims to educate her listeners about acts of genocide against Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. The song’s lyrics, however, are only one aspect of its significance. In this article, I draw on studies of voice and flexible meter to explore Sainte-Marie’s self-expressive vocal rhetoric in three extant recordings of “My Country ’Tis of Thy People You’re Dying”—two from 1966 and one from 2017. I explore how Sainte-Marie’s flexible hypermeter and vibrato techniques add layers of expressive impact to her performances and help to position Sainte-Marie as an innovator in the singer-songwriter tradition.
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Matrices of ‘Love and Theft’: Joan Baez Imitates Bob Dylan
This article uses Joan Baez's impersonations of Bob Dylan from the mid-1960s to the beginning of the twenty-first century as performances where multiple fields of complementary discourse converge. The article is organized in three parts. The first part addresses the musical details of Baez's acts of mimicry and their uncanny ability to summon Dylan's predecessors. The second considers mimicry in the context of identity, specifically race and asymmetrical power relations in the history of American popular music. The third and final section analyses her imitations in the context of gender and reproductive labour, focusing on the way various media have shaped her persona and her relationship to Dylan. The article engages critical theoretical work informed by psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory, and Marxist feminism.
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Fostering Strategic Change Through Organization Learning and Continuous Improvement
The authors explore the concept of fostering strategic change through organization learning and continuous improvement. The novel COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to most organizations and led to failures of change initiatives and company closures. Given the dynamic operating environment and the dynamics of the 21st-century environment, Organization Development (OD) practitioners need to adapt and offer an eclectic mix of interventions informed by novel paradigms. This will ensure sustainability and longevity during unsettled and highly competitive times. The authors propose eight (8) paradigm shifts to support organization learning and continuous improvement through the use of OD practices. Recommendations are offered to support organizations improving their facilitation of strategic change. The authors conclude that continuous business growth, adaptability, selfrenewal, and sustainability are fundamentals for organizations seeking to thrive.
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Neurology through the humanities
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine at Oklahoma City (OK, USA) offers a mandatory Enrichment Program, Humanities and Medicine, to second-year medical students. The discourse for the second session centered around Stolen Memories, with a focus on the effects of Alzheimer's disease, as illustrated in the work of the philosopher and author Iris Murdoch. [...]the cognitive decline of the country music singer Glen Campbell was illustrated by contrasting his song Rhinestone Cowboy that he used to perform in his prime with I'm Not Going to Miss You—Campbell's swan song after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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