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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... tion on words and to introduce them to the possibilities of nonverbal communication . The transition was gradual , in the sixties , to appreciation of words and music together . Listeners to each newly released Dylan album would first ...
... tion on words and to introduce them to the possibilities of nonverbal communication . The transition was gradual , in the sixties , to appreciation of words and music together . Listeners to each newly released Dylan album would first ...
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... tion alone . In three and a half measures , guitar chords change from the secure - seeming tonic , behind each end - rhyme word , to a subdomi- nant and then an unfinished - sounding dominant . This chord progres- sion both repeats the ...
... tion alone . In three and a half measures , guitar chords change from the secure - seeming tonic , behind each end - rhyme word , to a subdomi- nant and then an unfinished - sounding dominant . This chord progres- sion both repeats the ...
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... tion , and Dylan's voice , which is " fuller and warmer .... He holds notes much longer now than he used to . " He sees the songs as " decep- tively simple " : Dylan " takes cliches from all of pop music and changes all their faces so ...
... tion , and Dylan's voice , which is " fuller and warmer .... He holds notes much longer now than he used to . " He sees the songs as " decep- tively simple " : Dylan " takes cliches from all of pop music and changes all their faces so ...
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