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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... narrative , as early narrative songs like " Talking New York " ( 1962 ) and later lyric ones like " Buckets of Rain " ( 1974 ) go to show . Other apparent developments over the decades could also be disproven with evidence outside these ...
... narrative , as early narrative songs like " Talking New York " ( 1962 ) and later lyric ones like " Buckets of Rain " ( 1974 ) go to show . Other apparent developments over the decades could also be disproven with evidence outside these ...
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... narrative too is intricately nonsequential . Each stanza tells a bit of what would be a narrative sequence , as the narrator meets and falls in love with and gets rejected by the woman . But all these scenes are disrupted , the ...
... narrative too is intricately nonsequential . Each stanza tells a bit of what would be a narrative sequence , as the narrator meets and falls in love with and gets rejected by the woman . But all these scenes are disrupted , the ...
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... narrative . The music throughout anticipates the unsettling last stanza , in which the narrator finally addresses Isis directly and finds that he still does not understand what the Female wants or needs from him ... if anything . On ...
... narrative . The music throughout anticipates the unsettling last stanza , in which the narrator finally addresses Isis directly and finds that he still does not understand what the Female wants or needs from him ... if anything . On ...
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