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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... measures per line go on and on , line after line — a bit more than four measures of voice and guitar , a bit less than three measures of guitar alone . A listener expects eight musical measures ; the incomplete seven - measure struc ...
... measures per line go on and on , line after line — a bit more than four measures of voice and guitar , a bit less than three measures of guitar alone . A listener expects eight musical measures ; the incomplete seven - measure struc ...
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... measures strummed on acous- tic guitar . Tony Brown's bass joins it for four measures , then continues throughout the vocals . Behind each sung line the bass marks the first beat of each measure and fills in the fourth measure , usually ...
... measures strummed on acous- tic guitar . Tony Brown's bass joins it for four measures , then continues throughout the vocals . Behind each sung line the bass marks the first beat of each measure and fills in the fourth measure , usually ...
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... measures . All variations in line length are eliminated . For example , instead of expanding the refrain from a three - measure line to three and a half to six ( as on the sheet music ) , the Turtles make each refrain line three measures ...
... measures . All variations in line length are eliminated . For example , instead of expanding the refrain from a three - measure line to three and a half to six ( as on the sheet music ) , the Turtles make each refrain line three measures ...
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