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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Page 14
The single guitar that accompanies Dylan ' s 1963 voice helps create an
atmosphere of foreboding ; in 1973 , the elaborate instrumentation and backup
singers reinforce Ferry ' s voice in its mood of mocking triumph . Dylan ' s narrator
is a ...
The single guitar that accompanies Dylan ' s 1963 voice helps create an
atmosphere of foreboding ; in 1973 , the elaborate instrumentation and backup
singers reinforce Ferry ' s voice in its mood of mocking triumph . Dylan ' s narrator
is a ...
Page 118
The lead guitar makes the transition to the second stanza . In its ABCB segment
the voice , keyboard , and guitar each imitate Babe ' s descent from ledge to
ground — to a solid - seeming grouwound , rounded and wide . Oral
onomatopoeia is ...
The lead guitar makes the transition to the second stanza . In its ABCB segment
the voice , keyboard , and guitar each imitate Babe ' s descent from ledge to
ground — to a solid - seeming grouwound , rounded and wide . Oral
onomatopoeia is ...
Page 127
The only phrase repeated from stanza to stanza , “ Look out kid , " is the only
place where the melody moves more than a third away from C above middle C . “
Look out kid ” is backed by a D7 guitar chord , and the next - to - last couplet in
each ...
The only phrase repeated from stanza to stanza , “ Look out kid , " is the only
place where the melody moves more than a third away from C above middle C . “
Look out kid ” is backed by a D7 guitar chord , and the next - to - last couplet in
each ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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