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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... pitch for the first time on " didn't you ? ” or , more accurately , din yooo ? ( His voice seems to descend on each line before , but is staying on one pitch while organ chords ascend . ) As in conversation , the raised pitch asks a ...
... pitch for the first time on " didn't you ? ” or , more accurately , din yooo ? ( His voice seems to descend on each line before , but is staying on one pitch while organ chords ascend . ) As in conversation , the raised pitch asks a ...
Page 97
... pitch , and loud . His voice drops in pitch , arclike , on the last syllable " known " ; then he repeats this pitch drop for " stone . ” His vocal inflections make the lines hostile and aggressive . But the lines seem arbitrarily chosen ...
... pitch , and loud . His voice drops in pitch , arclike , on the last syllable " known " ; then he repeats this pitch drop for " stone . ” His vocal inflections make the lines hostile and aggressive . But the lines seem arbitrarily chosen ...
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... pitch higher than any before , until its last sung word , which climbs yet another pitch . The G end - rhymes thus occur on a higher pitch than anything in the song except for the first " No " in the refrain : after " me , Babe " drops ...
... pitch higher than any before , until its last sung word , which climbs yet another pitch . The G end - rhymes thus occur on a higher pitch than anything in the song except for the first " No " in the refrain : after " me , Babe " drops ...
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aesthetic ain't album alliteration appear artistic audience Babe Baby beat becomes begins Blues Bob Dylan breaks chords closing comes concert continues contrast couplet create culture drums Dylan's voice effect emotional example express eyes fall feel female final follow four fourth give guitar hard harmonica Idiot Wind imagery instrumental Isis it's Italy John lady lead leave less listener live Lonely looking mark meaning measures Miss move narrator narrator's never notes opening oppositions organ outtake patterns performance phrase pitch plays poetic rain recorded refer refrain released repeated response rhyme rock Rolling Stone sad-eyed scene seems sense shift Side sings song song's sound stands stanza structure studio suggests sung tell third throughout tradition understand verse vocal voice Warner Bros woman words York