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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... phrase " rolling stone " contains two of the vowels and two of the consonant sounds most often repeated throughout ... phrase " Once upon a time ” also sets up the time contrast between then and now , between the romance and riches she ...
... phrase " rolling stone " contains two of the vowels and two of the consonant sounds most often repeated throughout ... phrase " Once upon a time ” also sets up the time contrast between then and now , between the romance and riches she ...
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... phrase " protect you and defend you , " sandwiched in between the weak / strong and right / wrong images . The two ... phrase itself has two unresolved metaphorical implications . " Close his eyes for you " suggests a movie - star kiss ...
... phrase " protect you and defend you , " sandwiched in between the weak / strong and right / wrong images . The two ... phrase itself has two unresolved metaphorical implications . " Close his eyes for you " suggests a movie - star kiss ...
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... phrase is present tense . The past tense of Dylan's line implies that the asker regards “ where it's at ” as some permanent state that the narrator has been steadily in for all these years . Even in present tense , the phrase would ...
... phrase is present tense . The past tense of Dylan's line implies that the asker regards “ where it's at ” as some permanent state that the narrator has been steadily in for all these years . Even in present tense , the phrase would ...
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