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 this third stanza ' s AB couplet , Miss Lonely can again be visualized : no
longer in a dorm room but rather at a circus , her own private one with “ all the
clowns that you have commissioned ” ( as elsewhere on this album _ " Queen
Jane ...
In this third stanza ' s AB couplet , Miss Lonely can again be visualized : no
longer in a dorm room but rather at a circus , her own private one with “ all the
clowns that you have commissioned ” ( as elsewhere on this album _ " Queen
Jane ...
Page 90
By the end of the third stanza Miss Lonely has become a victim , albeit one who
asked for it , instead of a haughty bitch . The feelings of the narrator edge toward
sympathy . Thus , the third - refrain questions sound less threatening than in the ...
By the end of the third stanza Miss Lonely has become a victim , albeit one who
asked for it , instead of a haughty bitch . The feelings of the narrator edge toward
sympathy . Thus , the third - refrain questions sound less threatening than in the ...
Page 153
chord to introduce the straightforward , sad statement that concludes the verse .
The organ plays the same four stair step chords with which it had backed up the
waiting lines that ended the third verse , but here it does the stair step faster ,
twice ...
chord to introduce the straightforward , sad statement that concludes the verse .
The organ plays the same four stair step chords with which it had backed up the
waiting lines that ended the third verse , but here it does the stair step faster ,
twice ...
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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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