From Dickinson to Dylan

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826274528
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis From Dickinson to Dylan by : Glenn Hughes

Download or read book From Dickinson to Dylan written by Glenn Hughes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists—Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan—have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors’ works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality might be. This work is unique in its extended focus, in a comparative study spanning a century, on the persistence and centrality in modernist literature of the struggle to understand and articulate the dependence of human meaning on the mystery of transcendent meaning. Hughes shows us that each of these authors is a mystic in his or her way, and that none are tempted by the modern inclination to suppose that meaning originates with human beings. Together, they address one of the most difficult and important challenges of modern literature: how to be a mystic in modernity.

Down the Highway

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195458
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Down the Highway by : Howard Sounes

Download or read book Down the Highway written by Howard Sounes and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed biography—now updated and revised. “Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan’s] life, but never has it been done so well, so captivatingly” (The Boston Globe). Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan. Now this edition continues to document the iconic songwriter’s life through new interviews and reporting, covering the release of Dylan’s first #1 album since the seventies, recognition from the Pulitzer Prize jury for his influence on popular culture, and the publication of his bestselling memoir, giving full appreciation to his artistic achievements and profound significance. Candid and refreshing, Down the Highway is a sincere tribute to Dylan’s seminal place in postwar American cultural history, and remains an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan’s music over the years. “Irresistible . . . Finally puts Dylan the human being in the rocket’s red glare.” —Detroit Free Press

Bob Dylan

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416559832
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (598 download)

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Book Synopsis Bob Dylan by : Seth Rogovoy

Download or read book Bob Dylan written by Seth Rogovoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Dylan and his artistic accomplishments have been explored, examined, and dissected year in and year out for decades, and through almost every lens. Yet rarely has anyone delved extensively into Dylan's Jewish heritage and the influence of Judaism in his work. In Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, Seth Rogovoy, an award-winning critic and expert on Jewish music, rectifies that oversight, presenting a fascinating new look at one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. Rogovoy unearths the various strands of Judaism that appear throughout Bob Dylan's songs, revealing the ways in which Dylan walks in the footsteps of the Jewish Prophets. Rogovoy explains the profound depth of Jewish content—drawn from the Bible, the Talmud, and the Kabbalah—at the heart of Dylan's music, and demonstrates how his songs can only be fully appreciated in light of Dylan's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish themes that inform them. From his childhood growing up the son of Abe and Beatty Zimmerman, who were at the center of the small Jewish community in his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to his frequent visits to Israel and involvement with the Orthodox Jewish outreach movement Chabad, Judaism has permeated Dylan's everyday life and work. Early songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" derive central imagery from passages in the books of Ezekiel and Isaiah; mid-career numbers like "Forever Young" are infused with themes from the Bible, Jewish liturgy, and Kabbalah; while late-period efforts have revealed a mind shaped by Jewish concepts of Creation and redemption. In this context, even Dylan's so-called born-again period is seen as a logical, almost inevitable development in his growth as a man and artist wrestling with the burden and inheritance of the Jewish prophetic tradition. Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet is a fresh and illuminating look at one of America's most renowned—and one of its most enigmatic—talents.

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811186
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Book Synopsis I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone by : Jim Dickinson

Download or read book I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone written by Jim Dickinson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King. With verve and wit, Dickinson (1941-2009) describes his trip to Blind Lemon's grave on the Texas flatlands as a college student and how that encounter inspired his return to Memphis. Back home, he looked up Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, began staging plays, cofounded what would become the annual Memphis Blues Festival, and started recording. The blues, Elvis, and early rock "n" roll compelled Dickinson to reject racial barriers and spurred his contributions to the Memphis music and experimental art scene. He explains how the family yardman, WDIA, Dewey Phillips, Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Howlin" Wolf shaped him and recounts how he went on to learn his craft at Sun, Ardent, American, Muscle Shoals, and Criteria studios from master producers Sam Phillips, John Fry, Chips Moman, and Jerry Wexler. Dickinson is a member of the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame and an inaugural inductee of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Engineering and Production from the Americana Music Association, a Brass Note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis, and a Heritage Marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This memoir recounts a love affair with Memphis, the blues, and rock "n" roll through Dickinson's captivating blend of intelligence, humor, and candor.

Dylan at 80

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1788360710
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Dylan at 80 by : Gary Browning

Download or read book Dylan at 80 written by Gary Browning and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 marks Dylan's 80th birthday and his 60th year in the music world. It invites us to look back on his career and the multitudes that it contains. Is he a song and dance man? A political hero? A protest singer? A self-portrait artist who has yet to paint his masterpiece? Is he Shakespeare in the alley? The greatest living exponent of American music? An ironsmith? Internet radio DJ? Poet (who knows it)? Is he a spiritual and religious parking meter? Judas? The voice of a generation or a false prophet, jokerman, and thief? Dylan is all these and none. The essays in this book explore the Nobel laureate's masks, collectively reflecting upon their meaning through time, change, movement, and age. They are written by wonderful and diverse set of contributors, all here for his 80th birthday bash: celebrated Dylanologists like Michael Gray and Laura Tenschert; recording artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Barb Jungr, Amy Rigby, and Emma Swift; and 'the professors' who all like his looks: David Boucher, Anne Margaret Daniel, Ray Monk, Galen Strawson, and more. Read it on your toaster!

The Philosophy of Modern Song

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648723
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Modern Song by : Bob Dylan

Download or read book The Philosophy of Modern Song written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

A Freewheelin' Time

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767926889
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Book Synopsis A Freewheelin' Time by : Suze Rotolo

Download or read book A Freewheelin' Time written by Suze Rotolo and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover of Freewheelin’ broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” –UNCUT magazine Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and the early days of the folk music explosion, when Bob Dylan was finding his voice and she was his muse. A shy girl from Queens, Suze was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists, growing up at the dawn of the Cold War. It was the age of McCarthy and Suze was an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. She found solace in poetry, art, and music—and in Greenwich Village, where she encountered like-minded and politically active friends. One hot July day in 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, then a rising musician, at a concert at Riverside Church. She was seventeen, he was twenty; they were both vibrant, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation. A Freewheelin’ Time is a hopeful, intimate memoir of a vital movement at its most creative. It captures the excitement of youth, the heartbreak of young love, and the struggles for a brighter future in a time when everything seemed possible.

Oil Brat

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0987789104
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis Oil Brat by : Jonathan Bennett

Download or read book Oil Brat written by Jonathan Bennett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil Brat is a coming-of-age story you probably won't want your kids to read. Join Dylan, wannabe James Bond style lover, in his raunchy romp through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood - as he learns to survive, he sometimes gets the girl, but usually she comes with a lot more than he bargained for! An irreverent look at growing up in the dysfunctional world of international oil camps. A picaresque novel about alienation, set in an age when parents allowed kids the freedom to make their own mistakes...and Dylan Douglas is hard-wired for trouble! Oil Brat is also the story of the females that combine to make the boy a man. Dylan's loves - Genevieve, Bridget, Gabriela, Poppy, Megan...and others - each play a special role in transforming a confused three-year-old into a more arrogant, but just as confused twenty-something.

The Value of Emily Dickinson

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107083915
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Value of Emily Dickinson by : Mary Loeffelholz

Download or read book The Value of Emily Dickinson written by Mary Loeffelholz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first compact introduction to Emily Dickinson to focus principally on her poems and their significance to readers. It addresses the question of literary value, considering current controversies over whether Dickinson's writings are best appreciated as visual works or as rhymed and metered poems intended for the ear.

Home on the Horizon

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781906165154
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (651 download)

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Book Synopsis Home on the Horizon by : Sally Bayley

Download or read book Home on the Horizon written by Sally Bayley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the domestic frontier to the wide-open spaces of the American outdoors. In contemporary America, she argues, the experience of home is increasingly isolated, leading to unsettling moments of domestic fallout. At the centre of the book is the exposed and often shifting domain of the domestic threshold: Emily Dickinson's doorstep, Edward Hopper's doors and windows, and Harper Lee's front porch. Bayley tracks these historically fragile territories through contemporary literature and film, including Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, Lars Von Trier's Dogville, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - works that explore local, domestic territories as emblems of nation. The culturally potent sites of the american home - the hearth, porch, backyard, front lawn, bathroom, and basement - are positioned in relation to the more conflicted sites of the American motel and hotel.

Bob Dylan All the Songs

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Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316353531
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis Bob Dylan All the Songs by : Philippe Margotin

Download or read book Bob Dylan All the Songs written by Philippe Margotin and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the most comprehensive account of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work yet published, with the full story of every recording session, every album, and every single released during his nearly 60-year career. Bob Dylan: All the Songs focuses on Dylan's creative process and his organic, unencumbered style of recording. 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. Organized chronologically by album, Margotin and Guesdon detail the origins of his melodies and lyrics, his process in the recording studio, the instruments he used, and the contribution of a myriad of musicians and producers to his canon.

Dylan's Visions of Sin

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060599243
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Dylan's Visions of Sin by : Christopher Ricks

Download or read book Dylan's Visions of Sin written by Christopher Ricks and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bob Dylan's New York

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467149667
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Book Synopsis Bob Dylan's New York by : June Skinner Sawyers

Download or read book Bob Dylan's New York written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a snowy winter morning in 1961, Robert Zimmerman left Minnesota for New York City with a suitcase, guitar, harmonica and a few bucks in his pocket. Wasting no time upon arrival, he performed at the Cafe Wha? in his first day in the city, under the name Bob Dylan. Over the next decade the cultural milieu of Greenwich Village would foster the emergence of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. From the coffeehouses of MacDougal Street to Andy Warhol's Factory, Dylan honed his craft by drifting in and out of New York's thriving arts scenes of the 1960s and early ,70s. In this revised edition, originally published in 2011, author June Skinner Sawyers captures the thrill of how a city shaped an American icon and the people and places that were the touchstones of a legendary journey.

My Emily Dickinson

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223345
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis My Emily Dickinson by : Susan Howe

Download or read book My Emily Dickinson written by Susan Howe and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun," Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. "Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text...."

Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501328522
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation by : Louis A. Renza

Download or read book Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation written by Louis A. Renza and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as “poems.” Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal “autobiography” in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.

If Dogs Run Free

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648790
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis If Dogs Run Free by : Bob Dylan

Download or read book If Dogs Run Free written by Bob Dylan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the Bob Dylan song that asks the question "If dogs run free, why not we?"

The Book of Men: Poems

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080919
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Men: Poems by : Dorianne Laux

Download or read book The Book of Men: Poems written by Dorianne Laux and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine The narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, luminous" (San Diego Union-Tribune). from "To Kiss Frank," make out with him a bit, this is what my friend would like to do oh these too many dead summers later, and as much as I want to stroll with her into the poet's hazy fancy all I can see is O'Hara's long gone lips fallen free of the bone, slumbering beneath the grainy soil.