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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... leave them by your gate ] Or , sad - eyed lady , should I wait ? With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace And your basement clothes and your hollow face Who among them can ...
... leave them by your gate ] Or , sad - eyed lady , should I wait ? With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace And your basement clothes and your hollow face Who among them can ...
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... leave them by your gate Or , sad - eyed lady , should I wait ? With your sheet - metal memory of Cannery Row And your magazine husband , who one day just had to go And your gentleness now , which you just can't help but show Who among ...
... leave them by your gate Or , sad - eyed lady , should I wait ? With your sheet - metal memory of Cannery Row And your magazine husband , who one day just had to go And your gentleness now , which you just can't help but show Who among ...
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... Leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want , Babe [ 75 : I'm not the one that you want , Babe ] I'm not the one you need You say you're looking for someone Who's never weak but always strong [ B , F , 74 : Never weak but ...
... Leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want , Babe [ 75 : I'm not the one that you want , Babe ] I'm not the one you need You say you're looking for someone Who's never weak but always strong [ B , F , 74 : Never weak but ...
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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