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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... word " so . " Each rhyme word of this opening couplet , time / fine / dime / prime , combines a long i with a final nasal consonant , m / n , as also in the refrain rhymes [ own ] / home / unknown / stone . The long i , as in each ...
... word " so . " Each rhyme word of this opening couplet , time / fine / dime / prime , combines a long i with a final nasal consonant , m / n , as also in the refrain rhymes [ own ] / home / unknown / stone . The long i , as in each ...
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... word " bound " alliterates with these words of warning . With its diphthong , it also anticipates the sequence about / out / loud / proud that end - rhymes in the short couplets that follow . The musical bridge after " kidding you " is ...
... word " bound " alliterates with these words of warning . With its diphthong , it also anticipates the sequence about / out / loud / proud that end - rhymes in the short couplets that follow . The musical bridge after " kidding you " is ...
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... words should structure perceptions toward linear understanding . But here , already fragmentary words gradually lose control further to forced rhymes ; by the last sung stanza , word sound has far more effect than word sense . And then ...
... words should structure perceptions toward linear understanding . But here , already fragmentary words gradually lose control further to forced rhymes ; by the last sung stanza , word sound has far more effect than word sense . And then ...
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