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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... scene shifts in " Hard Rain " make it resemble a Child ballad being run through a projector too fast , for a Child ballad characteristically leaps — but stanza by stanza - from scene to scene of dramatic and emotional intensity.14 Lord ...
... scene shifts in " Hard Rain " make it resemble a Child ballad being run through a projector too fast , for a Child ballad characteristically leaps — but stanza by stanza - from scene to scene of dramatic and emotional intensity.14 Lord ...
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... scene to scene of intense drama . In " Just Like a Woman " the scenes are briefer - couplets , usually . Transitions are lacking ; furthermore , less neatly than in " Shelter , " the time sequence is deliberately scrambled . And instead ...
... scene to scene of intense drama . In " Just Like a Woman " the scenes are briefer - couplets , usually . Transitions are lacking ; furthermore , less neatly than in " Shelter , " the time sequence is deliberately scrambled . And instead ...
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... scene of confrontation is understood nonsequentially with the next scene , in which a man clearly demands money from the " you " he confronts , the trench - coated man seems to be blaming his disease on his hapless victim . That victim ...
... scene of confrontation is understood nonsequentially with the next scene , in which a man clearly demands money from the " you " he confronts , the trench - coated man seems to be blaming his disease on his hapless victim . That victim ...
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