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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... sound most resembling the sound of an electric guitar . ( Dylan was not the first to make artistic use of this vocal / instrumental interface : Elvis Presley , for one , often flips into falsetto on syllables containing long- e sounds ...
... sound most resembling the sound of an electric guitar . ( Dylan was not the first to make artistic use of this vocal / instrumental interface : Elvis Presley , for one , often flips into falsetto on syllables containing long- e sounds ...
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... sound creates a vocal effect like the shriek of an electric guitar , and the harmonica resembles a human voice . Let ... sound of lyrics , as on the page ( rhyme , assonance , meter ) ... vocal effects ( sound of lyrics , as performed ) ...
... sound creates a vocal effect like the shriek of an electric guitar , and the harmonica resembles a human voice . Let ... sound of lyrics , as on the page ( rhyme , assonance , meter ) ... vocal effects ( sound of lyrics , as performed ) ...
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... sound of " so " will get sucked into the re- sounding " stone , " right along with " don't " ; here , more immediately , it collapses into the sound and sense of " seem . ” " Seem , " next to the active verbs " laugh " and " talk ...
... sound of " so " will get sucked into the re- sounding " stone , " right along with " don't " ; here , more immediately , it collapses into the sound and sense of " seem . ” " Seem , " next to the active verbs " laugh " and " talk ...
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