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 63
For " Just Like a Woman , ” such a spectrum would stretch from the discursive
sense of the lyrics , at the far “ words ” end , to the instruments that mark rhythm -
one guitar in 1974 and the band with regular drums , piano , and guitars in 1966
...
For " Just Like a Woman , ” such a spectrum would stretch from the discursive
sense of the lyrics , at the far “ words ” end , to the instruments that mark rhythm -
one guitar in 1974 and the band with regular drums , piano , and guitars in 1966
...
Page 77
At a live performance , though , it would take a stolid listener indeed to ignore the
sense of community in the crowd around her . That sense is so strong that , in the
Newport ' 65 and Manchester ' 66 concerts perhaps and in other concerts ...
At a live performance , though , it would take a stolid listener indeed to ignore the
sense of community in the crowd around her . That sense is so strong that , in the
Newport ' 65 and Manchester ' 66 concerts perhaps and in other concerts ...
Page 136
From the typescript we can only assume — but safely — that Dylan began from
musical sound , along with meter and rhyme , and that the sense of the lyrics
emerged more gradually , adapted and improved to fit the sound he heard in his
mind ...
From the typescript we can only assume — but safely — that Dylan began from
musical sound , along with meter and rhyme , and that the sense of the lyrics
emerged more gradually , adapted and improved to fit the sound he heard in his
mind ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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