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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... sense of the lyrics , at the far " words " end , to the instruments that mark rhythm - one guitar in 1974 , and the band with regular drums , piano , and guitars in 1966 : ( nonsequential ) sense of lyrics sound of lyrics , as on the ...
... sense of the lyrics , at the far " words " end , to the instruments that mark rhythm - one guitar in 1974 , and the band with regular drums , piano , and guitars in 1966 : ( nonsequential ) sense of lyrics sound of lyrics , as on the ...
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... sense of community in the crowd around her . That sense is so strong that , in the Newport '65 and Manchester '66 concerts perhaps and in other concerts certainly , the audience united against Dylan and acted out an oedipal slaying of ...
... sense of community in the crowd around her . That sense is so strong that , in the Newport '65 and Manchester '66 concerts perhaps and in other concerts certainly , the audience united against Dylan and acted out an oedipal slaying of ...
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... sense of the lyrics , spat out in barely coherent bursts of paranoia and futility : sense of words sound of words ( esp . rhyme ) vocal effects ( esp . voice - forced rhyme ) harmonica and electric guitar rhythm instruments Each term in ...
... sense of the lyrics , spat out in barely coherent bursts of paranoia and futility : sense of words sound of words ( esp . rhyme ) vocal effects ( esp . voice - forced rhyme ) harmonica and electric guitar rhythm instruments Each term in ...
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