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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... tradition , “ The sun's gonna shine in my back door someday . " The structure of " Oxford Town " evokes black musical tradition also - spirituals , more directly than the blues . Tom Paxton , another songwriter in Dylan and Ochs's ...
... tradition , “ The sun's gonna shine in my back door someday . " The structure of " Oxford Town " evokes black musical tradition also - spirituals , more directly than the blues . Tom Paxton , another songwriter in Dylan and Ochs's ...
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... tradition . Time is both there and not there ; neither words nor music overpowers the other , and the contradictory complex of emotions remains not tense , not resolved , but somehow balanced . The innovative Eastern music of " Isis ...
... tradition . Time is both there and not there ; neither words nor music overpowers the other , and the contradictory complex of emotions remains not tense , not resolved , but somehow balanced . The innovative Eastern music of " Isis ...
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... tradition . In white culture the image is frozen into formulaic words of wisdom , although interpretations vary : either the rolling stone gathers no wealth and is a bad thing to be ( mostly in Scottish tradition ) , or the rolling ...
... tradition . In white culture the image is frozen into formulaic words of wisdom , although interpretations vary : either the rolling stone gathers no wealth and is a bad thing to be ( mostly in Scottish tradition ) , or the rolling ...
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