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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... lead ) voice and instrument , sharing responsibility for expressiveness ; gospel style tends toward groups of singers , weaving elaborate vocal harmo- nies to a strong beat . Not until after World War II were American race records ...
... lead ) voice and instrument , sharing responsibility for expressiveness ; gospel style tends toward groups of singers , weaving elaborate vocal harmo- nies to a strong beat . Not until after World War II were American race records ...
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... lead singer vocalizes alone , rather softly . For both DEFEG segments the bass , plucked twice each time , marks eight beats alternately with the eight strong beats that the tambourine continues to mark . The lead vocalist sings more ...
... lead singer vocalizes alone , rather softly . For both DEFEG segments the bass , plucked twice each time , marks eight beats alternately with the eight strong beats that the tambourine continues to mark . The lead vocalist sings more ...
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... lead guitar rises in pitch , creating tension with the meaning of the word and with the glockenspiel , whose tones then descend after an up - swooping vocalization of " I'm . " But the effect is isolated , seeming accidental . At the ...
... lead guitar rises in pitch , creating tension with the meaning of the word and with the glockenspiel , whose tones then descend after an up - swooping vocalization of " I'm . " But the effect is isolated , seeming accidental . At the ...
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