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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... album artisti- cally . But Scaduto , like the other interpreters , cannot stop at aesthetic appreciation ; he plunges onward until images become biography and " Dylan understands that in spreading the Word as a prophet , he has become ...
... album artisti- cally . But Scaduto , like the other interpreters , cannot stop at aesthetic appreciation ; he plunges onward until images become biography and " Dylan understands that in spreading the Word as a prophet , he has become ...
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... album contains no such literary references except to the " Yeatsian overtones " of " All Along the Watchtower . " 11 Gleason , the Grand Old Man of rock - music criticism until his death in 1975 , there describes the album's overall ...
... album contains no such literary references except to the " Yeatsian overtones " of " All Along the Watchtower . " 11 Gleason , the Grand Old Man of rock - music criticism until his death in 1975 , there describes the album's overall ...
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... album is both religious and political , for they are one and the same . Two other reviewers use the same Dylan line to express their own thoughts concisely . To describe the style shift from earlier albums , both Paul Nelson and Jon ...
... album is both religious and political , for they are one and the same . Two other reviewers use the same Dylan line to express their own thoughts concisely . To describe the style shift from earlier albums , both Paul Nelson and Jon ...
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