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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... sound so soothing ? For one thing , the disrupted time sequence suggests that past is not unalterably past . For another , Dylan's voice and the gentle instrumentation counterbalance the harshness of the narrator's exile- counterbalance ...
... sound so soothing ? For one thing , the disrupted time sequence suggests that past is not unalterably past . For another , Dylan's voice and the gentle instrumentation counterbalance the harshness of the narrator's exile- counterbalance ...
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Words and Music by Bob Dylan Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan. Dylan has released two very ... Dylan's vocal inflections on this line , more specifically on the key word ... voice to let the musical space fill mostly with that version's familiar ...
Words and Music by Bob Dylan Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan. Dylan has released two very ... Dylan's vocal inflections on this line , more specifically on the key word ... voice to let the musical space fill mostly with that version's familiar ...
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Words and Music by Bob Dylan Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan. leaves the listener at a high ... voice and guitar creates quite an opposite effect : a listener focuses ... Dylan's voice defies the guitar just enough to carry the listener along with ...
Words and Music by Bob Dylan Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan. leaves the listener at a high ... voice and guitar creates quite an opposite effect : a listener focuses ... Dylan's voice defies the guitar just enough to carry the listener along with ...
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