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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... performance , considering the aesthetic impact of pauses , vocal inflections , and so on . As exemplified by Literature in Performance , a journal begun in 1980 , their prescriptive approach meshes neatly with the carefully descrip ...
... performance , considering the aesthetic impact of pauses , vocal inflections , and so on . As exemplified by Literature in Performance , a journal begun in 1980 , their prescriptive approach meshes neatly with the carefully descrip ...
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... performance of any song . First , consider what music does that words cannot , what words do that music cannot , and where other elements of performance would fall on a spectrum stretched from purely musical effects to purely verbal ...
... performance of any song . First , consider what music does that words cannot , what words do that music cannot , and where other elements of performance would fall on a spectrum stretched from purely musical effects to purely verbal ...
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... performance . The overall effect of this version is of interlocking and writhing sets of tensions , each unresolved as it occurs within what would be a listener's linear experience of the performance but the whole mass resolved all at ...
... performance . The overall effect of this version is of interlocking and writhing sets of tensions , each unresolved as it occurs within what would be a listener's linear experience of the performance but the whole mass resolved all at ...
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