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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... audience reaction , and the aesthetic standards upheld by performer and audience.3 I have bemoaned the scarcity of videotapes of Dylan performances — albeit halfheartedly , I admit , since I've plenty to say about sound alone . Still ...
... audience reaction , and the aesthetic standards upheld by performer and audience.3 I have bemoaned the scarcity of videotapes of Dylan performances — albeit halfheartedly , I admit , since I've plenty to say about sound alone . Still ...
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... audience expectations that drumrolls will follow sung lines . Each first " How does it feel ? " features a drumroll instead on " How " ; each second one , a drumroll during " feel . ” In all refrains , the percussion makes the rhyme ...
... audience expectations that drumrolls will follow sung lines . Each first " How does it feel ? " features a drumroll instead on " How " ; each second one , a drumroll during " feel . ” In all refrains , the percussion makes the rhyme ...
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... audience in a community purged of pent - up anger at " you . " And the Manchester band and audience do not sing along on " How does it feel ? ” It is unlikely that reliable eyewitness accounts of audience behavior during this Manchester ...
... audience in a community purged of pent - up anger at " you . " And the Manchester band and audience do not sing along on " How does it feel ? ” It is unlikely that reliable eyewitness accounts of audience behavior during this Manchester ...
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