This third edition provides a definitive retrospective appraisal of almost 40 years of work by one of the 20th century's most significant artists. The author provides, in this new edition, fresh material and analysis. The material both updates the book through 1999 and offers major new studies of Dylan's entire oeuvre: notably a vast study of Dylan's use of the huge body of pre-war blues lyric poetry, a major chapter on his adept and knowledgable use of nursery rhyme and a substantial scrutiny of Dylan's prolific use of the Bible. The album-by-album guide has been updated and extended.
"In this affectionate story, three children follow their grandfather up to the attic, where he pulls out his old bowler hat, gold-tipped cane, and his tap shoes.
The Art of Bob Dylan: Song & Dance Man
"Finally, Gershunoff's memoir reveals the fruits of his distinguished career in the performing arts, providing valuable lessons for today's performing arts managers and presenters, as well as aspiring artists."--BOOK JACKET.
The Films of Gene Kelly, Song and Dance Man
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" LONDON REVIEW BOOKSHOP: "Song & Dance Man is probably the greatest book about the work of a single popular musician ever to have been published." EVENING STANDARD, London: "The definitive critical work."
In Outtakes On Bob Dylan, we get Gray the man as well as a unique measure of Dylan's long acareer as it unfolds, not in retrospect but in real time."--Description from inside flap.
"Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky, hanky-panky, cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky-tonky, winky wonky, donkey!
In a poignant collection of poetry, the award-winning author of The Dead Alive and Busy shares his emotional upheaval through the last month's of his terminally ill brother's life with songs of celebration, lament, grief, and love.
" - New York Review of Books "Fans of Bob Dylan have a multitude of choices when it comes to biographies and retrospectives, but author Michael Gray outdistances them all with this voluminous collection of all things Dylan. ..