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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Page 21
Vocal manipulation continues in a swallowed “ well , ” the bouncing consonance
of “ singing , ” and the thrice - repeated laughing refrain . Ferry thus closes with
the narrator ' s self - confident control over language , not his drowning . The two
...
Vocal manipulation continues in a swallowed “ well , ” the bouncing consonance
of “ singing , ” and the thrice - repeated laughing refrain . Ferry thus closes with
the narrator ' s self - confident control over language , not his drowning . The two
...
Page 107
The lines of refrain build on each other ' s statements , their threefold incremental
repetition suggesting , and expanding on , the twice - repeated line characteristic
of twelve - bar - blues structure . Twofold incremental repetition , elsewhere ...
The lines of refrain build on each other ' s statements , their threefold incremental
repetition suggesting , and expanding on , the twice - repeated line characteristic
of twelve - bar - blues structure . Twofold incremental repetition , elsewhere ...
Page 113
Dylan and Baez speed up the instrumentally defined tempo together , during the
final repeated refrain , again suggesting cooperative understanding : guitar /
guitar coordination , like voice / voice and voices / guitars , stays all on the beat .
Dylan and Baez speed up the instrumentally defined tempo together , during the
final repeated refrain , again suggesting cooperative understanding : guitar /
guitar coordination , like voice / voice and voices / guitars , stays all on the beat .
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| Title | Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan |
| Authors | Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 28 May 2010 |
| ISBN | 0761819479, 9780761819479 |
| Length | 263 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / General Music / Instruction & Study / Songwriting |
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