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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Page 45
The innovative Eastern music of "Isis" has quite a different effect on the listener
and quite a different relationship to the words, in both the song and the glimpse
we get of Dylan composing this and other songs on Desire. In the liner notes,
Allen ...
The innovative Eastern music of "Isis" has quite a different effect on the listener
and quite a different relationship to the words, in both the song and the glimpse
we get of Dylan composing this and other songs on Desire. In the liner notes,
Allen ...
Page 49
both the Fourth of July and his wedding to Isis on the fifth of May — contradictory
associations with Male and Female worlds, so that the narrator can announce his
relief publicly while privately feeling happy for another reason. As they ride ...
both the Fourth of July and his wedding to Isis on the fifth of May — contradictory
associations with Male and Female worlds, so that the narrator can announce his
relief publicly while privately feeling happy for another reason. As they ride ...
Page 50
This one pronunciation, as oral onomatopoeia, imitates the emotional tug-of-war
within Isis's husband. Seldom, elsewhere, does Dylan's slurred pronunciation
merge two words that would create unresolvable conflicts in sense if heard as
one ...
This one pronunciation, as oral onomatopoeia, imitates the emotional tug-of-war
within Isis's husband. Seldom, elsewhere, does Dylan's slurred pronunciation
merge two words that would create unresolvable conflicts in sense if heard as
one ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Authors | Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 May 2010 |
| ISBN | 0761819479, 9780761819479 |
| Length | 263 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / General Music / Instruction & Study / Songwriting |
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