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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... harmonica . He seldom plays the sung melody , though . For example , in the fifth instrumental line , his harmonica notes blur into a harsher sound than elsewhere ; in the ninth line he plays a series of high , then low , pitches . Most ...
... harmonica . He seldom plays the sung melody , though . For example , in the fifth instrumental line , his harmonica notes blur into a harsher sound than elsewhere ; in the ninth line he plays a series of high , then low , pitches . Most ...
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... harmonica with the precise phrasing , melody , and inflections that his voice will produce for " Nobody feels any pain / Tonight as I stand inside the rain . " After all of the 1966 lyrics the closing harmonica again sings like a voice ...
... harmonica with the precise phrasing , melody , and inflections that his voice will produce for " Nobody feels any pain / Tonight as I stand inside the rain . " After all of the 1966 lyrics the closing harmonica again sings like a voice ...
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... harmonica refrain shows more respect for textual divisions than did the sung stanzas . Dylan's harmonica , as usual , mediates between vocal and instrumental effects , but here the conflict has been so one - sided that the harmonica ...
... harmonica refrain shows more respect for textual divisions than did the sung stanzas . Dylan's harmonica , as usual , mediates between vocal and instrumental effects , but here the conflict has been so one - sided that the harmonica ...
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