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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... chords change from the secure - seeming tonic , behind each end - rhyme word , to a subdomi- nant and then an unfinished - sounding dominant . This chord progres- sion both repeats the sung question before it and anticipates a question ...
... chords change from the secure - seeming tonic , behind each end - rhyme word , to a subdomi- nant and then an unfinished - sounding dominant . This chord progres- sion both repeats the sung question before it and anticipates a question ...
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... chord change is rendered just the same after nearly every line of refrain — not accented by percussion or elaborated , as in 1974 , nor passed from organ to piano , as often on Highway 61. Each verbal question is followed by a slow ...
... chord change is rendered just the same after nearly every line of refrain — not accented by percussion or elaborated , as in 1974 , nor passed from organ to piano , as often on Highway 61. Each verbal question is followed by a slow ...
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... chord change on guitar and usually by a shivering tambou- rine stroke ( i.e. , one produced by sideways wrist motion ) ... chord , is followed by two instrumen- tal riffs the first changing G to C - minor , the second back to G and again ...
... chord change on guitar and usually by a shivering tambou- rine stroke ( i.e. , one produced by sideways wrist motion ) ... chord , is followed by two instrumen- tal riffs the first changing G to C - minor , the second back to G and again ...
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