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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 41
Page 37
... stands ready to offer the sad - eyed lady his Arabian drums : he will voluntarily give up both the eyes he needs to see the world and the drums he needs to communicate with it . " Arabian " here , like " Egyptian " in " She Belongs to ...
... stands ready to offer the sad - eyed lady his Arabian drums : he will voluntarily give up both the eyes he needs to see the world and the drums he needs to communicate with it . " Arabian " here , like " Egyptian " in " She Belongs to ...
Page 62
... stands out and seems to take longer to sing , as oral onomatopoeia . In both the 1966 and 1974 versions , a listener is carried through " Just Like a Woman " not by words primarily or by music primarily but by the middle term in my ...
... stands out and seems to take longer to sing , as oral onomatopoeia . In both the 1966 and 1974 versions , a listener is carried through " Just Like a Woman " not by words primarily or by music primarily but by the middle term in my ...
Page 134
... stands alone in the song . The pavement world has no place for gardens , even in the heat of early May- except for a healthy crop of parking meters . Now the narrator's advice changes . Ducking down an alleyway didn't work , so the ...
... stands alone in the song . The pavement world has no place for gardens , even in the heat of early May- except for a healthy crop of parking meters . Now the narrator's advice changes . Ducking down an alleyway didn't work , so the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ABCB aesthetic ain't album artistic audience aural Babe Baby Ballad bass Beatles becomes Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan chord change concert version couplet culture drums Dylan's songs Dylan's voice effect electric guitar emotional feel female Ferry's four fourth stanza Freewheelin Hard Rain harmonica Highway 61 Highway 61 Revisited Idiot Wind Idiot wind Blowing imagery imitate instrumental break Isis Joan Baez John Wesley Harding listener listener's melody meter Miss Lonely musical beat musicians narrative narrator narrator's oral organ chords outtake Oxford Town patterns performance phrase piano pitch plays poetic recorded refrain released rhyme word riff rock Rolling Stone Sad-Eyed Lady scene second stanza sexual Shelter shift singers sings someone song's sound stanza studio version Subterranean Homesick Blues suggests sung lines sweet lady syllables tambourine tape textual third stanza throughout the song Univ unresolved verse vowel woman Woody Woody Guthrie words and music York