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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... voice- like inflections to its decidedly instrumental effects , leading her step by step away from culture - bound dependency on words . During each sung stanza , however , the interaction of voice and guitar creates quite an opposite ...
... voice- like inflections to its decidedly instrumental effects , leading her step by step away from culture - bound dependency on words . During each sung stanza , however , the interaction of voice and guitar creates quite an opposite ...
Page 115
... voice strongly leading and hers meekly agreeing . Now , Joan Baez does not have a weak or meekly agreeable voice . Her powerful soprano can be heard , often louder than Dylan's voice , in other duets they sing this Halloween night ...
... voice strongly leading and hers meekly agreeing . Now , Joan Baez does not have a weak or meekly agreeable voice . Her powerful soprano can be heard , often louder than Dylan's voice , in other duets they sing this Halloween night ...
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... voice aligns with the musical beat , Dylan's voice usually strays far from both , the voice ( or voices ) and the beat . In the first " Blowing every time you move your mouth , " for example , when the other vocalist arrives at the m of ...
... voice aligns with the musical beat , Dylan's voice usually strays far from both , the voice ( or voices ) and the beat . In the first " Blowing every time you move your mouth , " for example , when the other vocalist arrives at the m of ...
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