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Jun 20, 2024 · A reluctant popstar whose personal life is still pretty much of a secret, Dylan is primarily a poet working in a musical medium, an ancient tradition, as pointed out in Michael Gray's excellent new book, The Art of Bob Dylan (St. Martin's Press).
Jun 19, 2024 · Asked how she arrived at that very particular arrangement of “All I Really Want to Do”, Deyhim said: “ I’ve been really involved with human rights organizations for the last 15 years. Amnesty International called me and said they had an idea to get dozens of artists to cover songs by Dylan.
1 hour ago · The most consequential rocker of the decade barely played rock and roll. Bob Dylan, whose early “Song to Woody,” for folksinger Woody Guthrie, made the cross-generational claim the Stones did with Waters, was known for poetic anthems, both collective (“Blowin’ in the Wind”) and personal (“Mr. Tambourine Man”).
Jun 22, 2024 · 1. On Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan sings about his creative borrowing. He perpetuates it willfully and unapologetically by using Billy Emerson’s riffs on “False Prophet.” He satirizes it and practices it (taking a concept from Mary Shelley) in “My Own Version of You.”
Jun 22, 2024 · Bob Dylan and the Band’s 'Before the Flood' is a 21-song behemoth of chemistry, mayhem and disinterest pulled from their 1974 tour.
1 day ago · This chapter begins with 20th-century modernism at a time when art embraces new aesthetics embodied in breaking the rules of the academy, individualism, seeing the world through altered states of being and the subconscious mind, and artists forge new paths to making art in the digital twenty-first century. It considers developments in the arts ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Fourteenth-century alliterative verse and Bob Dylan’s music reflect movement from western towns to eastern cities, clearest for the fourteenth century in the career of William Langland, author of the dream vision Piers Plowman.
