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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... rock music . " Rock " is shortened from " rock and roll , " a term also borrowed from the blues . " Rock and roll " originally referred to sexual intercourse but as early as 1948 " was being used in a number of songs to suggest both ...
... rock music . " Rock " is shortened from " rock and roll , " a term also borrowed from the blues . " Rock and roll " originally referred to sexual intercourse but as early as 1948 " was being used in a number of songs to suggest both ...
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... rock music remains weak for an opposite reason : a too rigid set of aesthetic definitions . With the premise that " distinguishing between folk , fine , and popular art has become extremely difficult in the 1960's , " Carl Belz compiles ...
... rock music remains weak for an opposite reason : a too rigid set of aesthetic definitions . With the premise that " distinguishing between folk , fine , and popular art has become extremely difficult in the 1960's , " Carl Belz compiles ...
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... 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 study ever done of the interaction of words and music ...
... 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 study ever done of the interaction of words and music ...
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