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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... less than an octave , and only in the penultimate line of each stanza do notes occur more than a third apart . The guitar repeats three chords - D , A , G in Broadside , or Eb , Bb , Ab in later songbooks . By comparison , " Blowin ' in ...
... less than an octave , and only in the penultimate line of each stanza do notes occur more than a third apart . The guitar repeats three chords - D , A , G in Broadside , or Eb , Bb , Ab in later songbooks . By comparison , " Blowin ' in ...
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... less - hostile third refrain continues into the instrumental break , where guitars — with less percussion than elsewhere - lead into the fourth stanza . Dylan plays harmonica for a few notes at the start and end of this break . As if to ...
... less - hostile third refrain continues into the instrumental break , where guitars — with less percussion than elsewhere - lead into the fourth stanza . Dylan plays harmonica for a few notes at the start and end of this break . As if to ...
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... less and less relevant to Dylan's particular kind of rock music . As Gleason says , Dylan and the Beatles are in a class by themselves . Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers's Twilight of the Gods : The Music of the Beatles is the most detailed ...
... less and less relevant to Dylan's particular kind of rock music . As Gleason says , Dylan and the Beatles are in a class by themselves . Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers's Twilight of the Gods : The Music of the Beatles is the most detailed ...
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