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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... song texts first appeared in Sing Out !, a magazine that survived the fifties by shifting its focus from overtly political songs to preserved folksongs , mostly white rural American songs like " Tom Dooley " with which the Kingston Trio ...
... song texts first appeared in Sing Out !, a magazine that survived the fifties by shifting its focus from overtly political songs to preserved folksongs , mostly white rural American songs like " Tom Dooley " with which the Kingston Trio ...
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... songs not only draw the listener into interaction with the song but also can make a responsive listener take action outside the song , to change what is wrong . The songs of political protest that preceded Dylan's usually pose problems ...
... songs not only draw the listener into interaction with the song but also can make a responsive listener take action outside the song , to change what is wrong . The songs of political protest that preceded Dylan's usually pose problems ...
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... song , of sorts , one need only read the cover notes to The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan . There , Nat Hentoff quotes Dylan calling “ Hard Rain ” a “ desperate kind of song , " written during the Cuban missile crisis : " Every line in it is ...
... song , of sorts , one need only read the cover notes to The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan . There , Nat Hentoff quotes Dylan calling “ Hard Rain ” a “ desperate kind of song , " written during the Cuban missile crisis : " Every line in it is ...
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