Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob DylanBob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author's Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative examples 24 performances of 11 songs by Bob Dylan. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index. |
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... Beatles , whose albums and singles sold in unprecedented numbers . During the entire first six months of 1964 , Beatles songs held as many as five of the Top Ten slots — a feat unapproached by recording artists before or since in the ...
... Beatles , whose albums and singles sold in unprecedented numbers . During the entire first six months of 1964 , Beatles songs held as many as five of the Top Ten slots — a feat unapproached by recording artists before or since in the ...
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... Beatles ' " Help " clearly parodies both early - Beatles instrumentation and Bob Dylan's voice . ' At a case like that and not , I would say , at a borderline parody like this performance of " It Ain't Me , Babe , " someone else is ...
... Beatles ' " Help " clearly parodies both early - Beatles instrumentation and Bob Dylan's voice . ' At a case like that and not , I would say , at a borderline parody like this performance of " It Ain't Me , Babe , " someone else is ...
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... Beatles are in a class by themselves . Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers's Twilight of the Gods : The Music of the Beatles is the most detailed study ever done of the interaction of words and music , because philosophers of fine art tend to ...
... Beatles are in a class by themselves . Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers's Twilight of the Gods : The Music of the Beatles is the most detailed study ever done of the interaction of words and music , because philosophers of fine art tend to ...
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