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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... rain's gonna fall . ” In each refrain somewhat differently , Ferry and the backup vocal- ists bring out the harsh consonance in the phrase “ hard rain ” by giving each word equal force . ( Dylan , in contrast , makes each “ hard ” a ...
... rain's gonna fall . ” In each refrain somewhat differently , Ferry and the backup vocal- ists bring out the harsh consonance in the phrase “ hard rain ” by giving each word equal force . ( Dylan , in contrast , makes each “ hard ” a ...
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... rain first declares his soldierlike bravado , then twists the com- monplace “ in the rain ” to “ inside the rain . " The manipulative narrator tricks nature's rain into itself becoming a shelter for him , where he stands well protected ...
... rain first declares his soldierlike bravado , then twists the com- monplace “ in the rain ” to “ inside the rain . " The manipulative narrator tricks nature's rain into itself becoming a shelter for him , where he stands well protected ...
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... Rain's A - Gonna Fall " ; " Oxford Town " " ( Seems Like a ) Freeze Out " ( Dylan ) , 141-42 Gans , Herbert J : Popular Culture and High Culture , 179 Gant , Sandy , 99 , 220n15 , 223n7 , 226n15 Ginsberg , Allen , 46 , 49 , 130 , 138 ...
... Rain's A - Gonna Fall " ; " Oxford Town " " ( Seems Like a ) Freeze Out " ( Dylan ) , 141-42 Gans , Herbert J : Popular Culture and High Culture , 179 Gant , Sandy , 99 , 220n15 , 223n7 , 226n15 Ginsberg , Allen , 46 , 49 , 130 , 138 ...
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