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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... musicians , two steps ahead of his audience , and a city block or country mile ahead of the grown - ups . Other singers followed his lead after 1962 , as Dylan released albums of rough - edged impromptu perfor- mances rather than the ...
... musicians , two steps ahead of his audience , and a city block or country mile ahead of the grown - ups . Other singers followed his lead after 1962 , as Dylan released albums of rough - edged impromptu perfor- mances rather than the ...
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... musicians vary the C - F - G chord change just enough , refrain by refrain , that " How does it feel ? " gets reasked by what is both the same riff and a different riff . It seems an ideal teaching technique . But Dylan , totally ...
... musicians vary the C - F - G chord change just enough , refrain by refrain , that " How does it feel ? " gets reasked by what is both the same riff and a different riff . It seems an ideal teaching technique . But Dylan , totally ...
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... musicians make no such mistakes : they simply do the changes as fast as they gracefully can . In this version , as on Highway 61 , the organ marks the musical structures . The bass guitar differs a great deal : for Newport '65 it not ...
... musicians make no such mistakes : they simply do the changes as fast as they gracefully can . In this version , as on Highway 61 , the organ marks the musical structures . The bass guitar differs a great deal : for Newport '65 it not ...
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