Bob Dylan And The British Sixties

Author : Tudor Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429788482

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Bob Dylan and the British Sixties by Tudor Jones Pdf

Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back and Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home and the concerts contain some of his most acclaimed ever live performances. Dylan influenced British rock musicians such as The Beatles, The Animals, and many others; they, in turn, influenced him. Yet this key period in Dylan's artistic development is still under-represented in the extensive literature on Dylan. Tudor Jones rectifies that glaring gap with this deeply researched, yet highly readable, account of Dylan and the British Sixties. He explores the profound impact of Dylan on British popular musicians as well as his intense, and at times fraught, relationship with his UK fan base. He also provides much interesting historical context – cultural, social, and political – to give the reader a far greater understanding of a defining period of Dylan's hugely varied career. This is essential reading for all Dylan fans, as well as for readers interested in the tumultuous social and cultural history of the 1960s.

Author : George Frangoulis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312747272

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BOB DYLAN: The 1960s by George Frangoulis Pdf

Author : Mike Marqusee
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609801151

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Wicked Messenger by Mike Marqusee Pdf

Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Wicked Messenger is also a riveting political history of the United States in the 1960s. Tracing the development of the decade’s political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic—anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk— of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. Dylan’s anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation. "He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because any story told straight is a false one."

Author : John Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317113027

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Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s by John Hughes Pdf

Invisible Now describes Bob Dylan's transformative inspiration as artist and cultural figure in the 1960s. Hughes identifies Dylan's creativity with an essential imaginative dynamic, as the singer perpetually departs from a former state of inexpression in pursuit of new, as yet unknown, powers of self-renewal. This motif of temporal self-division is taken as corresponding to what Dylan later referred to as an artistic project of 'continual becoming', and is explored in the book as a creative and ethical principle that underlies many facets of Dylan's appeal. Accordingly, the book combines close discussions of Dylan's mercurial art with related discussions of his humour, voice, photographs, and self-presentation, as well as with the singularities of particular performances. The result is a nuanced account of Dylan's creativity that allows us to understand more closely the nature of Dylan's art, and its links with American culture.

Author : Opher Goodwin
Publisher : Decades
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789522757

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Bob Dylan in the 1960s by Opher Goodwin Pdf

Author : K G Miles,Jackie Lees
Publisher : McNidder & Grace
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857162151

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Bob Dylan in London by K G Miles,Jackie Lees Pdf

'A must have for Dylan enthusiasts, lovers of London, and anyone with even a passing interest in the history of music. I devoured it in two sittings - and I loved it!' Conor McPherson, playwright, Girl from the North Country This is both a guide and history on the impact of London on Dylan, and the lasting legacy of Bob Dylan on the London music scene. Bob Dylan in London celebrates this journey, and allows readers to experience his London and follow in his footsteps to places such as the King and Queen pub (the first venue that Dylan performed at in London), the Savoy hotel and Camden Town. This book explores the key London places and times that helped to create one of the greatest of all popular musicians, Bob Dylan.

Author : Tony Dunsbee
Publisher : M-Y Books Limited
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781909908321

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Gathered From Coincidence by Tony Dunsbee Pdf

Combining the personal memories and critical analysis of a self-confessed pop addict with a wealth of contemporary documentary evidence, Gathered From Coincidence reconstructs a truly momentous era to tell the story of the music of the Sixties year by year. By tracing in parallel the origins and development of the recording careers of major talents on both sides of the Atlantic - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Dusty Springfield and many more besides - this account shows how they traded creativity with one another. All the great Sixties' hits - as well as a host of less well-known gems - are described in the context of the charts of the day, tracking the ups and downs of different trends as they came and went, such as: rock'n'roll, rhythm & blues, psychedelia, modern folk, the concept album or supergroups. But beyond this, each chapter also places the music in a broader historical and cultural setting of landmark events at home and abroad - the space race, the Profumo affair, the Cold War, Vietnam, the growth of satire - to show how, as the decade unfolded, the paths of pop and current affairs drew ever closer together. If you thought the Sixties were just about the fleeting dreams of hippies in the Summer of Love, then think again! This book will open your eyes to a far-reaching imaginative legacy and how it came to shape pop music as a dazzling art form in its own right.

Author : Simon Philo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810886278

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British Invasion by Simon Philo Pdf

Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for sixty percent of all recorded music sold in the United States; in 1964 and 1965 British acts occupied the number one position for 52 of the 104 weeks; and from 1964 through to 1970, the Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, the Kinks, the Hollies, the Yardbirds and the Who placed more than one hundred and thirty songs on the American Top Forty. In The British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop culture’s flow of influence, goods, and ideas—orchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British pop in North America that turned the 1960s into “The Sixties.” Focusing on key works and performers, The British Invasion tracks the journey of this musical phenomenon from peripheral irrelevance through exotic novelty into the heart of mainstream rock. Throughout, Philo explores how and why British music from the period came to achieve such unprecedented heights of commercial, artistic, and cultural dominance. The British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence will appeal to fans, students and scholars of popular music history—indeed anyone interested in understanding the fascinating relationship between popular music and culture.

Author : Suze Rotolo
Publisher : Crown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767926881

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A Freewheelin' Time by Suze Rotolo Pdf

“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.

Author : Takayuki Shonaka,Takahiro Mimura,Shinya Morikawa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031249983

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Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro by Takayuki Shonaka,Takahiro Mimura,Shinya Morikawa Pdf

This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British author from the vantage point of his birthplace, showing how Ishiguro remains greatly indebted to Japanese culture and sensibilities. The influence of Japanese literature and film is evident in Ishiguro’s early novels as he deals with the problem of the atomic bomb and Japan’s war responsibility, yet his later works also engage with folk tales and the modern popular culture of Japan. The chapters consider a range of Japanese influences on Ishiguro and adaptations of Ishiguro’s work, including literary, cinematic and animated representations. The book makes use of newly archived drafts of Ishiguro’s manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas to explore the origins of his oeuvre. It also offers sharp, new examinations of Ishiguro’s work in relation to memory studies, especially in relation to Japan. ​

Author : Lewis Helfand
Publisher : StormFront Entertainment
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781620988367

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Orbit: The Sixties by Lewis Helfand Pdf

In the 1960s, millions of young men and women were searching for a way to express their deepest desires and fears. And they found that in rock and roll as a host of musicians armed with nothing more than poetic lyrics and electric guitar riffs became the voice of a generation.

Author : Mike Marqusee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Nineteen sixties
ISBN : 8170461960

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Chimes of Freedom by Mike Marqusee Pdf

Chimes of Freedom tells the story of an irascible individual artist in a period of great social upheaval, a mass movement for social change and the complex, often tortured relationship between the two. Re-establishing Dylan s sixties master works in their historical context, the book sheds new light on both the songs and the era that produced them. This was a decade that saw widespread civil rights protest, the rise of black consciousness and Black Power, student protest across the globe, the Vietnam war and the anti-war movement, the Summer of Love and flower power, the Birmingham bombing and Woodstock. Studying the impact of the times on Dylan and Dylan on his times (he remains arguably the most influential protest song writer we have seen) Chimes of Freedom is not an exercise in nostalgia: rather, it is an urgent book that draws lessons for the future from the struggles of the past. It informs, entertains, and stimulates. Mike Marqusee is a London-based writer whose ground-breaking books on the politics of popular culture have won acclaim on three continents. Born and raised in the U.S.A., he has lived in Britain since 1971. His previous book, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, was voted one of Twenty Five Books to Remember from 1999 by the New York Public Library. He has written extensively on cricket, especially south Asian cricket, and currently writes a regular column in The Hindu.

Author : Marcus Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108477246

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The Beatles and Sixties Britain by Marcus Collins Pdf

In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.

Author : Michael Scott Cain
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476635958

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Folk Music and the New Left in the Sixties by Michael Scott Cain Pdf

Artists have often provided the earliest demonstrations of conscience and ethical examination in response to political events. The political shifts that took place in the 1960s were addressed by a revival of folk music as an expression of protest, hope and the courage to imagine a better world. This work explores the relationship between the cultural and political ideologies of the 1960s and the growing folk music movement, with a focus on musicians Phil Ochs; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary; Carolyn Hester and Bob Dylan.

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501355851

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Popular Music Autobiography by Oliver Lovesey Pdf

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum.