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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... tape started to displace reel - to - reel , they began preparing and trading copies of unreleased performances : concerts , warm - up sessions , and so on . As soon as computers became available for home use , people exchanging bootleg ...
... tape started to displace reel - to - reel , they began preparing and trading copies of unreleased performances : concerts , warm - up sessions , and so on . As soon as computers became available for home use , people exchanging bootleg ...
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... tape the whole of every concert - is plenty of material that can contribute toward these more recent issues in performance analysis . Some idea of audience response at a Dylan concert can be gleaned from bootleg tapes and released ...
... tape the whole of every concert - is plenty of material that can contribute toward these more recent issues in performance analysis . Some idea of audience response at a Dylan concert can be gleaned from bootleg tapes and released ...
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... tape is not certainly from that particular concert . My labeling of it as " Manchester " is based on Greil Marcus's recollection of his first receiving this tape , from Dylan's 1966 British tour . It could be Liverpool , Marcus says ...
... tape is not certainly from that particular concert . My labeling of it as " Manchester " is based on Greil Marcus's recollection of his first receiving this tape , from Dylan's 1966 British tour . It could be Liverpool , Marcus says ...
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