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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... electric - guitar shriek . " She Belongs to Me " begins with acoustic - guitar strumming , alone only briefly . The drum joins and then the electric guitar , which continues throughout , playing high , plucked notes and occasional runs ...
... electric - guitar shriek . " She Belongs to Me " begins with acoustic - guitar strumming , alone only briefly . The drum joins and then the electric guitar , which continues throughout , playing high , plucked notes and occasional runs ...
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... guitar chord , and the next - to - last couplet in each stanza by an E7 chord ; otherwise , the entire song is ... electric guitar , and offers up a few slogans to shout while running from one city hideout to the next . Certainly , Dylan ...
... guitar chord , and the next - to - last couplet in each stanza by an E7 chord ; otherwise , the entire song is ... electric guitar , and offers up a few slogans to shout while running from one city hideout to the next . Certainly , Dylan ...
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... electric guitar and harmonica together play a melody of a range such that a human voice could have carried it . But Dylan's voice , throughout the song , has declined its cultural obligation to sing . " Subterranean Homesick Blues ...
... electric guitar and harmonica together play a melody of a range such that a human voice could have carried it . But Dylan's voice , throughout the song , has declined its cultural obligation to sing . " Subterranean Homesick Blues ...
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