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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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 more ...
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 more ...
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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, yes she does ...
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, yes she does ...
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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 just
...
... 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 just
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| Title | Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan |
| Author | Betsy Bowden |
| Photographs by | Bob Dylan |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1982 |
| ISBN | 025334347X, 9780253343475 |
| Length | 239 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts Dylan, Bob Lyric poetry Music / Musical Instruments / General Music and literature Popular music Songs |
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