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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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 ...
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 ...
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both the Fourth of July and his wedding to Isis on the fifth of Maycontradictory
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 ,
then ...
both the Fourth of July and his wedding to Isis on the fifth of Maycontradictory
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 ,
then ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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| Title | Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan |
| 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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