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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... structure , as well as its immediate perfor- mance by Dylan , sets up unresolved tension with the sense of the lyrics . The confusion of the white southern narrator increases as he tries to articulate his perceptions about Oxford town ...
... structure , as well as its immediate perfor- mance by Dylan , sets up unresolved tension with the sense of the lyrics . The confusion of the white southern narrator increases as he tries to articulate his perceptions about Oxford town ...
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... structure combines with the dependably strophic musical structure to suggest that time is more controllable than we assume , that forever may end someday . " Shelter from the Storm " is on Blood on the Tracks , an album outstanding for ...
... structure combines with the dependably strophic musical structure to suggest that time is more controllable than we assume , that forever may end someday . " Shelter from the Storm " is on Blood on the Tracks , an album outstanding for ...
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... structure still unfamiliar to Dylan's 1964 audience . For " It Ain't Me , Babe , " instead , Dylan leaves his listeners firmly anchored in the verse - and - refrain structure of most white popular music ( including early Beatles ) while ...
... structure still unfamiliar to Dylan's 1964 audience . For " It Ain't Me , Babe , " instead , Dylan leaves his listeners firmly anchored in the verse - and - refrain structure of most white popular music ( including early Beatles ) while ...
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