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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... outtake . The drum defines the basic rhythm in the standard version ; in the outtake , the drum stays well in the background , leaving the acoustic guitar almost alone to begin and end the song , to make transitions between structural ...
... outtake . The drum defines the basic rhythm in the standard version ; in the outtake , the drum stays well in the background , leaving the acoustic guitar almost alone to begin and end the song , to make transitions between structural ...
Page 159
... outtake thus lacks both the anguish and the lion's growl of aparrr and harrr . The organ swell behind the " upside down " lines , next , becomes louder behind " bottom " but fades quickly so that the usual guitar riffs follow the words ...
... outtake thus lacks both the anguish and the lion's growl of aparrr and harrr . The organ swell behind the " upside down " lines , next , becomes louder behind " bottom " but fades quickly so that the usual guitar riffs follow the words ...
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... outtake verse . The hound dog , baying in the outtake , turns into the revised " howling beast " and the phrase " hounded by your memory . " The uniform he packs up is in contrast to the bags she left behind and also recalls the second ...
... outtake verse . The hound dog , baying in the outtake , turns into the revised " howling beast " and the phrase " hounded by your memory . " The uniform he packs up is in contrast to the bags she left behind and also recalls the second ...
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