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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Page 87
... becomes easier to picture : a prep - school type who would sneak whisky into her dorm and there giggle about Boys , waiting in hair rollers for a big weekend date . ( The possibility that she gets juiced on that date and does something ...
... becomes easier to picture : a prep - school type who would sneak whisky into her dorm and there giggle about Boys , waiting in hair rollers for a big weekend date . ( The possibility that she gets juiced on that date and does something ...
Page 98
... becomes Wu - unce upona ti - yime , yuh drest so fi - yine . In the second stanza , each rhymed “ it ” becomes ihit ; the ize rhymes also get reduplicated , especially reali - yize . Dylan pronounces other vowels as longer than they ...
... becomes Wu - unce upona ti - yime , yuh drest so fi - yine . In the second stanza , each rhymed “ it ” becomes ihit ; the ize rhymes also get reduplicated , especially reali - yize . Dylan pronounces other vowels as longer than they ...
Page 161
... becomes " raging glory " later in the standard fourth verse ) suggests the idiot wind itself and perhaps the “ raindrops ” of the second outtake verse . The hound dog , baying in the outtake , turns into the revised " howling beast ...
... becomes " raging glory " later in the standard fourth verse ) suggests the idiot wind itself and perhaps the “ raindrops ” of the second outtake verse . The hound dog , baying in the outtake , turns into the revised " howling beast ...
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