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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... tell of a terminated relationship that can be renewed only at the disinterested female's bidding . How , then , does the song sound so soothing ? For one thing , the disrupted time sequence suggests that past is not unalterably past ...
... tell of a terminated relationship that can be renewed only at the disinterested female's bidding . How , then , does the song sound so soothing ? For one thing , the disrupted time sequence suggests that past is not unalterably past ...
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... tell of her fairytale defenses . The contrast is highlighted between the past , when she was loud and proud , and the present , when she has to learn how . In order to create this new rhyme , however , Dylan has detracted from other ...
... tell of her fairytale defenses . The contrast is highlighted between the past , when she was loud and proud , and the present , when she has to learn how . In order to create this new rhyme , however , Dylan has detracted from other ...
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... tell if anything is Fonna sell try hard / get barrod / get back / at stale dax et nailed / jump bail join the army if you fail look out id you gonna get hit by teachers , prenchor , timelosos hanging round threatres get born / koop warn ...
... tell if anything is Fonna sell try hard / get barrod / get back / at stale dax et nailed / jump bail join the army if you fail look out id you gonna get hit by teachers , prenchor , timelosos hanging round threatres get born / koop warn ...
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ABCB aesthetic ain't Al Kooper album artistic audience aural Babe Baby Ballad bass Beatles becomes Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan chord change concert version couplet culture drums Dylan's songs Dylan's voice effect electric guitar emotional feel female Ferry's Folklore four fourth stanza Freewheelin Hard Rain harmonica Highway 61 Highway 61 Revisited Idiot Wind Idiot wind Blowing imagery imitate instrumental break Isis John Wesley Harding listener listener's melody meter Miss Lonely musical beat musicians narrative narrator narrator's Newport 65 oral organ chords outtake Oxford Town performance phrase piano pitch plays poetic recorded refrain released rhyme word riff rock Rolling Stone Sad-Eyed Lady scene second stanza Shelter shift singers sings someone song's sound stanza studio version Subterranean Homesick Blues suggests sung lines sweet lady syllables tambourine tape textual third stanza throughout the song Univ unresolved verse vowel woman Woody Guthrie words and music York