This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world's most influential artists.
Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact.
Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the inherently complex and varied material produced or associated with ...
Surviving in a ruthless world draws on previously unseen, and unheard resources in The Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa. It is the story of the writing and the recording of the album's eight songs and unreleased tracks from the Infidels project.
It is the only book to tell the stories, many unfamiliar even to his most fervent fans, behind the more than 500 songs he has released over the span of his career.
Civil. Rights. Movement. Charles. Hughes. On October 16, 1992, three weeks before election day, Stevie Wonder took the stage at the Bob Dylan Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration to revisit the song that in 1966 gave him a number one ...
Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan's Minnesota. Rev. ed. ... Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. New York: Billboard Books, 2004. ... Bob Dylan, Performing Artist: 1986–1990 & Beyond, Mind Out of Time.
With fresh and revealing information on every page A Restless, Hungry Feeling tells the story of Dylan's meteoric rise to fame: his arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman of a ...
Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.
This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas’s famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets.
A noted historian presents an assessment of Bob Dylan and his music that draws on unprecedented access to rare materials and illuminates key cultural influences.