Lee Marshall

Bob Dylan

The Never Ending Star

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bob Dylan s contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock s one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today.

As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless books and intricate scholarship considering various dimensions of both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan as a rock star. Whatever else Dylan is, he is a star - iconic, charismatic, legendary, enigmatic. No one else in popular music has maintained such star status for so long a period of time.

Showing how theories of stardom can help us understand both Bob Dylan and the history of rock music, Lee Marshall provides new insight into how Dylan s songs acquire meaning and affects his relationship with his fans, his critics and the recording industry. Marshall discusses Dylan s emergence as a star in the folk revival (the "spokesman for a generation") and the formative role that Dylan plays in creating a new type of music - rock - and a new type of star. Bringing the book right up to date, he also sheds new light on how Dylan s later career has been shaped by his earlier star image and how Dylan repeatedly tried to throw off the limitations and responsibilities of his stardom.

The book concludes by considering the revival of Dylan over the past ten years and how Dylan s stardom has developed in a way that contains, but is not overshadowed by, his achievements in the 1960s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers / Polity Press
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780745636429
• ISBN-10: 074563642X
• Artikelnr.: 22949077

Autorenporträt

Lee Marshall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements xi
The theoretical bit
Why looking at stardom is important for understanding Dylan. Different
approaches to stardom, and the most important bits of the theories. How we
hear songs. Whether words or voice are most important. How stardom affects
the meaning of songs.
1 Introduction 1
2 Stardom, Authorship and the Meaning of Songs 14
Dylan's sixties stardom
Dylan's emergence in the folk revival and the contradictions of being a
'folk star'. His move into rock, political individualism and the tensions
between culture and commerce. Dylan's withdrawal from the scene in the late
sixties. His attempts to reclaim his stardom and their effect on the rest
of his career.
Snapshot: The man of the people 49
3 Folk Stardom: Star as Ordinary, Star as Special 52
Snapshot: The chameleon poet 85
4 Rock Stardom: Reconciling Culture and Commerce 88
Snapshot: The retiring father 115
5 Beyond Stardom: Rock History and Canonisation 118
Dylan's later stardom
Changing social values and Dylan's problems in the 1980s. Dylan's attempt
to reconstruct the relationship with his audience. An overview of the Never
Ending Tour and its key features. Debates about Dylan's later work. Time
Out Of Mind and the changes in Dylan's stardom since 1997.
Snapshot: The rock legend 149
6 Declining Stardom: Nostalgia and the 'Death of Rock' 152
Snapshot: The wandering minstrel 183
7 Redefining Stardom: The Never Ending Tour 186
Snapshot: The soul of previous times 229
8 Never Ending Stardom: Dylan after Time Out Of Mind 232
Notes 277
Bibliography 287
List of Interviews 295
Copyright Acknowledgements 299
Index 304