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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... guitar pattern ( in rhythm ) , during every one of the thirty - seven narrative lines in the song and all but one of the stanza - opening questions as well . And he sinks into a final refrain that Dylan performs with vocal phrasing and ...
... guitar pattern ( in rhythm ) , during every one of the thirty - seven narrative lines in the song and all but one of the stanza - opening questions as well . And he sinks into a final refrain that Dylan performs with vocal phrasing and ...
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... guitar differs a great deal : for Newport '65 it not only keeps up a steady backup beat but also adds decorative riffs . After every refrain , for example , where on Highway 61 the guitars and drum together do fast , sharp beats leading ...
... guitar differs a great deal : for Newport '65 it not only keeps up a steady backup beat but also adds decorative riffs . After every refrain , for example , where on Highway 61 the guitars and drum together do fast , sharp beats leading ...
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... guitar chord , and the next - to - last couplet in each stanza by an E7 chord ; otherwise , the entire song is played on A7 . An A7 chord calls for a C - sharp in the vocal line , yet the score shows C natural— a clearly performed blue ...
... guitar chord , and the next - to - last couplet in each stanza by an E7 chord ; otherwise , the entire song is played on A7 . An A7 chord calls for a C - sharp in the vocal line , yet the score shows C natural— a clearly performed blue ...
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