The first volume of the long-awaited Bob Dylan autobiography, CHRONICLES, is a first-person journey through three decades. Dylan travels in time from his Minnesota youth to his 1960s Greenwich Village early years--a period of cultural upheaval whose idiosyncrasies and charming eccentricities he describes in stunning detail--and the equally rich ...
The story of how four young would-be bohemians met in Greenwich Village, fell in love, and changed the course of American music. The book describes how folk music crossed with rock'n'roll to form a new musical style and how the young beatniks rose to fame.
The first volume of the long-awaited Bob Dylan autobiography, CHRONICLES, is a first-person journey through three decades. Dylan travels in time from his Minnesota youth to his 1960s Greenwich Village early years--a period of cultural upheaval whose idiosyncrasies and charming eccentricities he describes in stunning detail--and the equally rich ...
A comprehensive book on Bob Dylan's song lyrics, this volume arranges the more than 300 songs by the date they were actually written rather than when they appeared on albums.
Bob Dylan's classic 1974 anthem Forever Young is reimagined by award-willing illustrator Rogers. In this picture book, the lyrics follow the story of a young boy who travels through Dylan's life, living in the footsteps of a musical legend. Full color.
Legions of Bob Dylan fans know he is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In this collection, 18 philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion.
In this remarkable academic analysis of some 40 of Bob Dylan's songs, Christopher Ricks, Oxford Professor of Poetry, displays a consuming passion for his subject as well as an innovative take on the roots of Dylan's imagery. Ricks indulges in clever wordplay ("Lay Lady Lay" becomes a display of the singer's "layladylaylia"), and also subjects ...
Thirty-one of the most significant and revealing conversations with Dylan have been compiled in this volume. Among the highlights are the seminal "Rolling Stone" interviews by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder, and Mikal Gilmore.
Bob Dylan's outreach is too wide, too deep and too long for any book about him to cover it all. He'll be 65 years old when this book is published. His career spans 45 years of American history, and that history has intersected with his prolific songwriting, recording, touring, acting, filmmaking, TV appearances and interviews. He has published a ...
Bob Dylan and the Band spent the summer of 1967 in the basement of Big Pink, the Band's house in West Saugerties, New York, recording a set of rough demos, sketches, goofs, and cover versions. By turns innovative, raw, whimsical, and eerily beautiful, the Basement Tapes, as they are known, became legendary among musicians and fans alike. Here, ...
A study of the Basement tapes, recordings made by Bob Dylan and the Band in Woodstock, New York, in 1967, analyzes this secret music never intended for release in terms of its place in contemporary music and in Dylan's career. Originally published as Invisible Republic. Reprint.
One of the most well-known voices in American music (both in folk and rock traditions), Bob Dylan has long been a fascinating subject for biographers and fans. Journalist Sounes, through extensive interviews with family, friends, and fellow artists (many of whom have been reticent in the past), examines important junctions in Dylan's life, ...
As Marqusee's compelling new book makes clear, behind the anarchy and playfulness of Dylan's imagery lie meanings that are charged with political and social concerns. Following his acclaimed study of Muhammad Ali, "Redemption Song, " Marqusee demonstrates an engaging ability to fuse biography and politics, storytelling and original insight.
A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's ...
In August 1964, twenty-one-year-old photographer Douglas R. Gilbert, on assignment for Look magazine, photographed an up-and-coming folk singer named Bob Dylan. Just twenty-three years old, Dylan had already composed a striking body of work, including "Blowin' in the Wind," yet he himself was still relatively unknown. All that was about to ...
In this tribute to Bob Dylan, a devoted fan argues that Dylan is the most significant American artist of the late 20th century. Readers are invited to explore Dylan's life (from the years 1961 to 2000) through his songs and important personal events, including his 1966 motorcycle accident, his divorce, the custody battle for his children, and his ...
The late Robert Shelton was a music critic for the New York Times for 10 years, during which, among many other timely discoveries of major talents, he reported on the rise to prominence of a young Midwestern singer named Bob Dylan. His early championing of the singer led to something of a friendship between the two men, at least in the early years ...
Published for the fortieth anniversary of the recording of "Like a Rolling Stone", this is the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and changed the rules of the possible in popular music overnight Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the ...
In "Dylan", Bob Spitz provides a dramatic yet clear-eyed view of the enigmatic guru of modern music. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Dylan's family, friends, lovers and fellow musicians. Spitz presents the true Bob Dylan in a vast array of guises: the early years in small-town Minnesota, when Bobby Zimmerman - loner, gadabout and local ...
The visual arts have always played a significant role in Bob Dylan's worldview, and drawing and painting served as an outlet for his huge creative energy. Exquisitely reproduced, these intensely colored works are variations of sketches Bob Dylan completed while touring America, Europe and Asia, revealing a new facet of the artist. Bob Dylan's ...
A spokesperson for a generation, Bob Dylan gave a voice to the young, and his words were, and still are, truly revolutionary. Bob Dylan: Inspirations conveys the spirit of the man and the inspiration he has brought to millions through his poignant music. This intriguing book is composed entirely of Dylan's own words. Photos of Dylan and ...
"Highway 61 Revisited" resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone", his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? A composite "type"?) fuses with the evocation of a hip ...
Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop music (folk, rock, blues) and as a modern literary figure. He has also attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur "interpreters". In this book Gilmour offers a thorough study of Dylan's reading of scriptures. He explores the ways in which Dylan transforms ...
Dylan's friends-from Pete Seeger to Bruce Springsteen to Rosanne Cash to Bono to Tom Petty-offer insight into the singer-songwriter's artistic genius and personality. This is an oral history of a major musician who played a significant role in America's cultural history.
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