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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... recorded data available for Dylan - more than for anyone else , perhaps , except for the Grateful Dead , some of whose fans still tape the whole of every concert - is plenty that can contribute toward these more recent issues in ...
... recorded data available for Dylan - more than for anyone else , perhaps , except for the Grateful Dead , some of whose fans still tape the whole of every concert - is plenty that can contribute toward these more recent issues in ...
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... recorded its album , Another Side of Bob Dylan , in June 1964 , at which time his pro- ducer , Tom Wilson , told New Yorker interviewer Nat Hentoff that " it's all to be stuff he's written in the last couple of months " ( Retrospective ...
... recorded its album , Another Side of Bob Dylan , in June 1964 , at which time his pro- ducer , Tom Wilson , told New Yorker interviewer Nat Hentoff that " it's all to be stuff he's written in the last couple of months " ( Retrospective ...
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... Recorded June 1964 , released August 1964 . Producer , Tom Wilson . [ Textual variants B for : ] Concert bootleg , from Philharmonic Hall , New York City , 31 October 1964. With Joan Baez . [ Textual variants T for : ] Studio version by ...
... Recorded June 1964 , released August 1964 . Producer , Tom Wilson . [ Textual variants B for : ] Concert bootleg , from Philharmonic Hall , New York City , 31 October 1964. With Joan Baez . [ Textual variants T for : ] Studio version by ...
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