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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... performance and audience interaction . On bootleg and other live recordings , the audience can be heard cheering or in a few mid - sixties concerts , as Dylan supposedly " went electric " -booing their hero . And sound tapes preserve a ...
... performance and audience interaction . On bootleg and other live recordings , the audience can be heard cheering or in a few mid - sixties concerts , as Dylan supposedly " went electric " -booing their hero . And sound tapes preserve a ...
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... performance element finally wins : each both overcomes and is subject to another . For each performance of " Just Like a Woman , " the whole spectrum tips toward the right , weighted toward the " music " end . In other of his songs ...
... performance element finally wins : each both overcomes and is subject to another . For each performance of " Just Like a Woman , " the whole spectrum tips toward the right , weighted toward the " music " end . In other of his songs ...
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... performance variables and add on the Renaldo and Clara version , which differs from my 1975 one mostly on the axis of tight vs. loose performance . I could get at least six early performances of the song by Dylan on bootleg tapes and ...
... performance variables and add on the Renaldo and Clara version , which differs from my 1975 one mostly on the axis of tight vs. loose performance . I could get at least six early performances of the song by Dylan on bootleg tapes and ...
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