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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The alliteration in these lines , like the assigning of human feelings to the
landscape , looks overdone on paper ; in performance , the opening alliteration
prepares the listener for the sharp line - by - line contrasts in emotion that will
follow .
The alliteration in these lines , like the assigning of human feelings to the
landscape , looks overdone on paper ; in performance , the opening alliteration
prepares the listener for the sharp line - by - line contrasts in emotion that will
follow .
Page 22
To set apart the vow that ends the song , for instance , he increases the
alliteration of “ none is the number ” by stretching the initial ns and swallowing the
uhs ; then he sings the last two verse lines staccato . Vocal manipulation
continues in a ...
To set apart the vow that ends the song , for instance , he increases the
alliteration of “ none is the number ” by stretching the initial ns and swallowing the
uhs ; then he sings the last two verse lines staccato . Vocal manipulation
continues in a ...
Page 136
But there from the start are the sounds of words , their rhyme and alliteration , and
also the poetic meter . Even without musical beat as reinforcement , the lines
pound out very regular trochees and dactyls , reversing to anapests for “ Look out
...
But there from the start are the sounds of words , their rhyme and alliteration , and
also the poetic meter . Even without musical beat as reinforcement , the lines
pound out very regular trochees and dactyls , reversing to anapests for “ Look out
...
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| Title | Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan |
| Authors | Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan |
| Photographs by | Bob Dylan |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1982 |
| ISBN | 025334347X, 9780253343475 |
| Length | 239 pages |
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