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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... Shelter from the Storm " the relationship of words to music ( more precisely , of discursive sense of lyrics to instrumentation ) is more complex . Instead of reinforcing each other , the simple instrumentation quite negates what the ...
... Shelter from the Storm " the relationship of words to music ( more precisely , of discursive sense of lyrics to instrumentation ) is more complex . Instead of reinforcing each other , the simple instrumentation quite negates what the ...
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... Shelter ” narrator is likewise suspended in time . The song's imagery does not develop neatly from hero who suffers to suffering hero , and the narrative too is intricately nonsequential . Each stanza tells a bit of what would be a ...
... Shelter ” narrator is likewise suspended in time . The song's imagery does not develop neatly from hero who suffers to suffering hero , and the narrative too is intricately nonsequential . Each stanza tells a bit of what would be a ...
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... shelter from the storm Now there's a wall between us , something has been lost I took too much for granted , I got my signals crossed Just to think that it all began on a noneventful morn Come in , she said , I'll give you shelter from ...
... shelter from the storm Now there's a wall between us , something has been lost I took too much for granted , I got my signals crossed Just to think that it all began on a noneventful morn Come in , she said , I'll give you shelter from ...
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