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 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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
After getting the call from Bob Dylan's people to write a projected movie of the songwriter's upcoming Rolling Thunder Revue, playwright and actor Sam Shepard drops everything and takes a train to "the Northeast," where a motley collection of 1960s leftovers, '70s stars, managers, musicians, and hangers-on are assembling around the elusive rock ...
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 ...
Hard Rain ranges over thirty years of Bob Dylan's recordings, films, and concerts to deliver astute insights intoand sometimes heretical judgements ofhis prodigious corpus of work. This updated edition includes a new epilogue that examines Dylan's thirtieth anniversary celebration in 1992; his albums Good As I Been to You, World Gone Wrong, and ...
"Million Dollar Bash" tells the story of the basement tapes, a strange series of recordings made by Bob Dylan when he went on the lam in the summer of 1967. Remarkably, these casual sessions kick-started the entire Americana genre and produced some of the most revered and misunderstood songs in Dylan's catalog. Author and musician Sid Griffin ...
"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 ...
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.
This work brings together two works of art - James Ensor's "Christ's Entry into Brussels 1889" and Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row". Ensor's canvas presents a scene filled with clowns, masked figures and, barely visible amongst the crowd, the tiny figure of Christ on a donkey entering the city of Brussels. "Desolation Row" from Dylan's classic 1965 ...
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 ...
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