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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... lady is just as awesome and holy at the end as at the beginning of the song . There is no linear narrative ; instead ... lady's attributes , most often as two nouns whose combination forms a not - quite - visual image- " match- book ...
... lady is just as awesome and holy at the end as at the beginning of the song . There is no linear narrative ; instead ... lady's attributes , most often as two nouns whose combination forms a not - quite - visual image- " match- book ...
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... lady , predicting her death with a vicious curse . " Cover up the truth with lies " directly evokes Watergate . The ... lady's facial features elsewhere . The bloody saddle - an image that Dylan combines with a road image to entitle the ...
... lady , predicting her death with a vicious curse . " Cover up the truth with lies " directly evokes Watergate . The ... lady's facial features elsewhere . The bloody saddle - an image that Dylan combines with a road image to entitle the ...
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... lady of the lowlands Where the sad - eyed prophet says that no man comes My warehouse eyes , my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate [ Should I leave them by your gate ] Or , sad - eyed lady , should I wait ? With your sheets ...
... lady of the lowlands Where the sad - eyed prophet says that no man comes My warehouse eyes , my Arabian drums Should I put them by your gate [ Should I leave them by your gate ] Or , sad - eyed lady , should I wait ? With your sheets ...
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ABCB aesthetic ain't Al Kooper album artistic audience aural Babe Baby Ballad bass Beatles Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan chord change couplet culture drums Dylan's songs Dylan's voice effect electric guitar emotional feel female Ferry's Folklore four fourth stanza Freewheelin Hard Rain hard rain's a-gonna harmonica 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 narrator narrator's oral organ chords outtake Oxford Town performance phrase piano pitch plays poetic rain's a-gonna fall recorded refrain released Retrospective rhyme word riff rock rock music 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 tion verse woman Woody Guthrie words and music York