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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Page 22
Vocal manipulation continues in a swallowed “ well , ” the bouncing consonance
of “ sing - ing , ” and the thrice - repeated laughing refrain . Ferry thus closes with
the narrator ' s self - confident control over language , not his drowning . The two
...
Vocal manipulation continues in a swallowed “ well , ” the bouncing consonance
of “ sing - ing , ” and the thrice - repeated laughing refrain . Ferry thus closes with
the narrator ' s self - confident control over language , not his drowning . The two
...
Page 117
They eliminate the entire third stanza , instead closing the song with “ No , it ain ' t
me you ' re looking for , Babe " and then “ I said - a no , no , no , it ain ' t me , Babe
, ” repeated five times and fading . The regularity makes their performance ...
They eliminate the entire third stanza , instead closing the song with “ No , it ain ' t
me you ' re looking for , Babe " and then “ I said - a no , no , no , it ain ' t me , Babe
, ” repeated five times and fading . The regularity makes their performance ...
Page 154
This riff is usually repeated twice after each B line and more often in the longer
instrumental breaks between verse halves , between verses and refrains , and
between stanzas . Each of these instrumental gaps predicts what will happen
during ...
This riff is usually repeated twice after each B line and more often in the longer
instrumental breaks between verse halves , between verses and refrains , and
between stanzas . Each of these instrumental gaps predicts what will happen
during ...
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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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