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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Words and Music by Bob Dylan Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan. arrangement of lines becomes less random : scenes begin to line up in pairs , pairs that become more and more clearly oppositional until the " wounded in love / wounded in hatred ...
Words and Music by Bob Dylan Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan. arrangement of lines becomes less random : scenes begin to line up in pairs , pairs that become more and more clearly oppositional until the " wounded in love / wounded in hatred ...
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... becomes easier to picture : a prep - school type who would sneak whisky into her dorm and there giggle about Boys , waiting in hair rollers for a big weekend date . ( The possibility that she gets juiced on that date and does something ...
... becomes easier to picture : a prep - school type who would sneak whisky into her dorm and there giggle about Boys , waiting in hair rollers for a big weekend date . ( The possibility that she gets juiced on that date and does something ...
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... becomes louder and louder , until the piano reaches its loudest and most excited passage after the fourth - stanza “ got it made . ” After the next couplet , though , the chords are softer and descending , for the first time in the song ...
... becomes louder and louder , until the piano reaches its loudest and most excited passage after the fourth - stanza “ got it made . ” After the next couplet , though , the chords are softer and descending , for the first time in the song ...
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