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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... stanza by stanza from scene to scene of dramatic and emotional intensity.1 Lord Randal could have spent hours dying while telling his mother who was to blame . In October 1962 , we would have had only seconds to die blameless . Lord ...
... stanza by stanza from scene to scene of dramatic and emotional intensity.1 Lord Randal could have spent hours dying while telling his mother who was to blame . In October 1962 , we would have had only seconds to die blameless . Lord ...
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... stanza um / n in " stumbles , " which anticipates the last stanza's end rhymes as well as its " Sunday " and " trumpet . " But the long - e sound is widest spread and is notable too as the vowel sound most resembling the sound of an ...
... stanza um / n in " stumbles , " which anticipates the last stanza's end rhymes as well as its " Sunday " and " trumpet . " But the long - e sound is widest spread and is notable too as the vowel sound most resembling the sound of an ...
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... stanza shifts to the imperative , with " you " understood . But there is a stanza not there on paper : between the third and fourth stanzas , both about " she , " Dylan plays an entire stanza on his harmonica . Because of the ...
... stanza shifts to the imperative , with " you " understood . But there is a stanza not there on paper : between the third and fourth stanzas , both about " she , " Dylan plays an entire stanza on his harmonica . Because of the ...
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