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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... give up both the eyes he needs to see the world and the drums he needs to communicate with it . " Arabian " here , like " Egyptian ” in “ She Belongs to Me , " makes its noun seem exotic and thereby valuable . The narrator knows she ...
... give up both the eyes he needs to see the world and the drums he needs to communicate with it . " Arabian " here , like " Egyptian ” in “ She Belongs to Me , " makes its noun seem exotic and thereby valuable . The narrator knows she ...
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... give you shelter from the storm And if I pass this way again , you can rest assured I'll always do my best for her , on that I give my word In a world of steeleyed death and men who are fighting to be warm Come in , she said , I'll give ...
... give you shelter from the storm And if I pass this way again , you can rest assured I'll always do my best for her , on that I give my word In a world of steeleyed death and men who are fighting to be warm Come in , she said , I'll give ...
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... give you shelter from the storm I was burned out from exhaustion , buried in the hail Poisoned in the bushes , blown out on the trail Hunted like a crocodile , ravished in the corn Come in , she said , I'll give you shelter from the ...
... give you shelter from the storm I was burned out from exhaustion , buried in the hail Poisoned in the bushes , blown out on the trail Hunted like a crocodile , ravished in the corn Come in , she said , I'll give you shelter from the ...
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ABCB aesthetic ain't Al Kooper album artistic audience aural Babe Baby Ballad bass Beatles Blonde on Blonde Bob Dylan chord change couplet culture drums Dylan's songs Dylan's voice effect electric guitar emotional feel female Ferry's Folklore four fourth stanza Freewheelin Hard Rain hard rain's a-gonna harmonica Highway 61 Revisited Idiot Wind Idiot wind Blowing imagery imitate instrumental break Isis John Wesley Harding listener listener's Look out kid melody meter Miss Lonely musical beat musicians narrator narrator's oral organ chords outtake Oxford Town performance phrase piano pitch plays poetic rain's a-gonna fall recorded refrain released Retrospective rhyme word riff rock rock music Rolling Stone sad-eyed lady scene second stanza Shelter shift sings someone song's sound stanza studio version Subterranean Homesick Blues suggests sung lines sweet lady syllables tambourine tape textual third stanza throughout the song tion verse woman Woody Guthrie words and music York