Jim Curtis

Decoding Dylan

Making Sense of the Songs That Changed Modern Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting. Drawing on revelations from Dylan's memoir Chronicles and a variety of other sources, the author arrives at a radically new interpretation of his body of work, which revolutionized American music and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan's songs are viewed as collages, ingeniously combining themes and images from American popular culture and European high culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781476678450
• ISBN-10: 1476678456
• Artikelnr.: 54687546

Autorenporträt

Jim Curtis taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 31 years. He lives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments "Songs for Passersby" by James M. Curtis Preface Introduction Section I: Theories and Practices 1.
Bob Dylan: His Biography and His Career 2.
The Early Years in New York 3.
Affinities with Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot and Pablo Picasso Section II: Songs and Songwriting 4.
Songs of Transcendence-Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde Table 1.
Chronology of Songs Table 2.
Night Songs 5.
Songs of Assimilation-John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline 6.
"Putting a Certain Orderliness to the Chaos" Table 3.
Rhyme Forms in Dylan's Songs of the Early 1960s Table 4.
Rhyme Forms in Dylan's Songs of the Late 1960s Table 5.
Examples of Triple Rhymes in Tin Pan Alley Songs Table 6.
Triple Rhymes or More in Some American Songs (1968-1984) 7.
Dylan and Springsteen 8.
The Real Revolution of the 1960s Table 7.
Chronologies of Early Successes of Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen by Approximate Age Conclusion: Dylan's Paradoxes Chapter Notes Bibliography Index