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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... in advancing technology and right away began using sound and video
equipment to capture all besides words that goes into a folk performance - the
gestures , facial expressions , pauses , vocal inflections , audience response ,
and so on .
... in advancing technology and right away began using sound and video
equipment to capture all besides words that goes into a folk performance - the
gestures , facial expressions , pauses , vocal inflections , audience response ,
and so on .
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... set of assumptions most akin to the “ reader - response " approach , regarding
myself as ideal listener . Such an interdisciplinary merger is rare in academia .
But record reviewers have anticipated nearly all my techniques and conclusions .
... set of assumptions most akin to the “ reader - response " approach , regarding
myself as ideal listener . Such an interdisciplinary merger is rare in academia .
But record reviewers have anticipated nearly all my techniques and conclusions .
Page 178
Thus emerged contour graphs of hearers ' affective responses . ... style marked
by frequent use of the word “ mere ” : popular art replaces aesthetic perception
with mere recognition , replaces aesthetic response with mere reaction , and so
on .
Thus emerged contour graphs of hearers ' affective responses . ... style marked
by frequent use of the word “ mere ” : popular art replaces aesthetic perception
with mere recognition , replaces aesthetic response with mere reaction , and so
on .
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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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