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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... rock , ” then , Dylan reopened the way to calmer country music with his 1967-1969 albums . Other musicians followed toward " soft rock . " Through it all , too , he brought poetry into rock lyrics - imagery , replacing the inanity ...
... rock , ” then , Dylan reopened the way to calmer country music with his 1967-1969 albums . Other musicians followed toward " soft rock . " Through it all , too , he brought poetry into rock lyrics - imagery , replacing the inanity ...
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... rock music . " Rock " is shortened from " rock and roll , " a term also borrowed from the blues . " Rock and roll " originally referred to sexual intercourse but as early as 1948 " was being used in a number of songs to suggest both ...
... rock music . " Rock " is shortened from " rock and roll , " a term also borrowed from the blues . " Rock and roll " originally referred to sexual intercourse but as early as 1948 " was being used in a number of songs to suggest both ...
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... rock musicians . Frustratingly , also , in more lucid moments he starts to raise valid issues , as in a paragraph that begins to define the unique sociological context for experiencing rock music.35 As I spiral outward from John Wesley ...
... rock musicians . Frustratingly , also , in more lucid moments he starts to raise valid issues , as in a paragraph that begins to define the unique sociological context for experiencing rock music.35 As I spiral outward from John Wesley ...
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