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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... Lonely down to street level . One phrase that contrasts sharply with her " Once upon a time " is " hanging out . " One person might hang out but would do so at a " recognized rendezvous , " expecting to be among others doing the same.13 ...
... Lonely down to street level . One phrase that contrasts sharply with her " Once upon a time " is " hanging out . " One person might hang out but would do so at a " recognized rendezvous , " expecting to be among others doing the same.13 ...
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... Lonely's fairytale life , but in a scene where she has more company than the one treacherous male who had appeared previously . The narrator edges closer to seeing Miss Lonely not just as snob but as victim of her high society , not ...
... Lonely's fairytale life , but in a scene where she has more company than the one treacherous male who had appeared previously . The narrator edges closer to seeing Miss Lonely not just as snob but as victim of her high society , not ...
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... Lonely's past defensiveness ( with " so " ) and her present loneliness ( with " be " ) . In print this couplet seems unsubtle : I conquered her world with my kind of language and my kind of clothes . But a song is not a poem . During ...
... Lonely's past defensiveness ( with " so " ) and her present loneliness ( with " be " ) . In print this couplet seems unsubtle : I conquered her world with my kind of language and my kind of clothes . But a song is not a poem . During ...
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