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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... piano ( which Dylan has occasionally played on albums since John Wesley Harding ) repeats its low - pitched chords , 123 123 123 123 , loudest behind the first two sung lines but steadily throughout . After two lines the piano passes ...
... piano ( which Dylan has occasionally played on albums since John Wesley Harding ) repeats its low - pitched chords , 123 123 123 123 , loudest behind the first two sung lines but steadily throughout . After two lines the piano passes ...
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... piano has predominated , its mellow arpeggios falling to the background only after ur end rhymes : because of a guitar arpeggio echoing the piano , after " curls " ; because of a guitar figure after " pearls " that instead descends and ...
... piano has predominated , its mellow arpeggios falling to the background only after ur end rhymes : because of a guitar arpeggio echoing the piano , after " curls " ; because of a guitar figure after " pearls " that instead descends and ...
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... piano starts off the 1974 concert version . The musicians tease the audience from the beginning : they pick at chords , coordinate with one another , even add in high organ notes for a slow , romantic song like " Lay , Lady , Lay ...
... piano starts off the 1974 concert version . The musicians tease the audience from the beginning : they pick at chords , coordinate with one another , even add in high organ notes for a slow , romantic song like " Lay , Lady , Lay ...
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