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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... musicians- called the Hawks in 1966 , the Band in 1974 - play before an openly ecstatic audience . Interaction with the audience may be one of the many " why " s behind a live performance's particular effect . The Newport '65 musicians ...
... musicians- called the Hawks in 1966 , the Band in 1974 - play before an openly ecstatic audience . Interaction with the audience may be one of the many " why " s behind a live performance's particular effect . The Newport '65 musicians ...
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... musicians tend to speed up during each refrain and stay there through the next verse . They stay at about 132 for a longer stretch , until the last refrain again quickens , to end the song at M.M. d = 138 . This unsteady increase in ...
... musicians tend to speed up during each refrain and stay there through the next verse . They stay at about 132 for a longer stretch , until the last refrain again quickens , to end the song at M.M. d = 138 . This unsteady increase in ...
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... musicians can spotlight this American subculture's boundaries . Both Brownie McGhee and Elvin Bishop learned to play the blues from records as well as from other musicians ; McGhee is older and black , Bishop younger and white . McGhee ...
... musicians can spotlight this American subculture's boundaries . Both Brownie McGhee and Elvin Bishop learned to play the blues from records as well as from other musicians ; McGhee is older and black , Bishop younger and white . McGhee ...
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