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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... meaning as well , because the narrator's “ don't " strips away from Miss Lonely the loud talk and seeming pride that , like the covering moss of the prov- erb , once kept her secure from rolling . In each of these two lines , the loud ...
... meaning as well , because the narrator's “ don't " strips away from Miss Lonely the loud talk and seeming pride that , like the covering moss of the prov- erb , once kept her secure from rolling . In each of these two lines , the loud ...
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... meaning . The invention of sound - recording equipment shook up any incipient con- formity to a set methodology for analysis of music , which so blatantly differs from any notated score . As recently as 1966 , Charles Keil de- spaired ...
... meaning . The invention of sound - recording equipment shook up any incipient con- formity to a set methodology for analysis of music , which so blatantly differs from any notated score . As recently as 1966 , Charles Keil de- spaired ...
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... meaning of " he's not busy being born , he's busy dying , " from " It's Alright , Ma " ( 1965 ) . On 16 August 1976 , p . 30 , Patrick Anderson cites three sources of evidence to prove that the line is “ He not busy being born is busy ...
... meaning of " he's not busy being born , he's busy dying , " from " It's Alright , Ma " ( 1965 ) . On 16 August 1976 , p . 30 , Patrick Anderson cites three sources of evidence to prove that the line is “ He not busy being born is busy ...
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