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 56
The women ' s movement was fully underway by five years after the release of “
Just Like a Woman . " Yet that same year of Blonde on Blonde , 1966 , I was
drawn into my first antiwar protest in Madison by the call “ Chicks inside ! We
need ...
The women ' s movement was fully underway by five years after the release of “
Just Like a Woman . " Yet that same year of Blonde on Blonde , 1966 , I was
drawn into my first antiwar protest in Madison by the call “ Chicks inside ! We
need ...
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Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows That
Baby ' s got new clothes ( Baby ' s got new clothes ] But lately I see her ribbons
and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman ...
Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Everybody knows That
Baby ' s got new clothes ( Baby ' s got new clothes ] But lately I see her ribbons
and her bows Have fallen from her curls She takes just like a woman ...
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... you fake just like a woman , yes you do [ You take just like a woman ] You
make love just like a woman , yes you do ( And you ache just like a woman )
Then you ache just like a woman [ And you make love just like a woman ) But you
break ...
... you fake just like a woman , yes you do [ You take just like a woman ] You
make love just like a woman , yes you do ( And you ache just like a woman )
Then you ache just like a woman [ And you make love just like a woman ) But you
break ...
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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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