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The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan
The Philosophy of Modern Song Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451648720

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The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan Pdf

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.

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan
The Philosophy of Modern Song Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1398519413

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The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan Pdf

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 a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 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 analyses 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.

100 Songs

Bob Dylan
100 Songs Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501173370

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100 Songs by Bob Dylan Pdf

“Dylan remains the rare singer whose work is worth reading on the page. His words are consistently funny, alive to the sound of language, and of course appealingly cryptic.” —The New York Times Book Review A new collection of Bob Dylan’s most essential lyrics—one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureate’s incredible range through the entirety of his career so far. Bob Dylan is one of the most important cultural figures of our time, and the first American musician in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 100 Songs is an intimate and carefully curated collection of his most important lyrics that spans from the beginning of his career through the present day. Perfect for students who may be new to Dylan’s work as well as longtime fans, this portable, abridged volume of these singular lyrics explores the depth, breadth, and magnitude of one of the world’s most enduring bodies of work.

Bob Dylan and Philosophy

Carl J. Porter,Peter Vernezze,William Irwin
Bob Dylan and Philosophy Book PDF

Author : Carl J. Porter,Peter Vernezze,William Irwin
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697605

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Bob Dylan and Philosophy by Carl J. Porter,Peter Vernezze,William Irwin Pdf

The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial attitudes toward religion. All phases of Dylan’s output are covered, from his early acoustic folk ballads and anthem-like protest songs to his controversial switch to electric guitar to his sometimes puzzling, often profound music of the 1970s and beyond. The book examines different aspects of Dylan’s creative thought through a philosophical lens, including personal identity, negative and positive freedom, enlightenment and postmodernism in his social criticism, and the morality of bootlegging. An engaging introduction to deep philosophical truths, the book provides Dylan fans with an opportunity to learn about philosophy while impressing fans of philosophy with the deeper implications of his intellectual achievements.

Bob Dylan All the Songs

Philippe Margotin,Jean-Michel Guesdon
Bob Dylan All the Songs Book PDF

Author : Philippe Margotin,Jean-Michel Guesdon
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780762475728

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Bob Dylan All the Songs by Philippe Margotin,Jean-Michel Guesdon Pdf

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

Christopher Ricks
Dylan s Visions of Sin Book PDF

Author : Christopher Ricks
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857862020

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Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks Pdf

‘I consider myself a poet first and a musician second’ ‘It ain’t the melodies that’re important man, it’s the words’ Two quotes from Dylan himself that underline the importance of this book. Dylanology thrives. There is no shortage of books about him and many of them will be dusted off for his 70th birthday. This one, however, stands on its own both for its unusual approach and for the virtuosity of its execution. Ricks’s scheme, aptly, is to examine Dylan’s songs through the biblical concepts of the seven deadly Sins, the four Virtues, and the three Heavenly Graces. He carries it off with panache. Ricks may be the most eminent literary critic of his generation but nobody should feel his book is one of earnest, unapproachable exegesis, on the contrary it has a flamboyance, almost effervescence about it that is captivating. Ricks boldly and successfully judges Dylan as a poet not a lyricist and in his tour-de-force makes endless illuminating comparisons with canonical writers such as Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins and Larkin.

Tarantula

Bob Dylan
Tarantula Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1439107661

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Tarantula by Bob Dylan Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time. Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and offers unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution, capturing the stream-of-consciousness preoccupations of the legendary folk poet and his eclectic, erudite cool at a crucial juncture in his artistic development. It has since been welcomed into the Dylan canon, as Dylan himself has cemented his place in the cultural imagination, inspiring Todd Haynes’s acclaimed 2007 musical drama I’m Not There, selling more than 100 million records, and winning numerous prizes, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel, Dylan acknowledged the early influence on his work of Buddy Holly and Lead Belly as well as of wide-ranging classics like Don Quixote, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Moby Dick. Tarantula is a rare chance to see Dylan at a moment in which he was still deeply connected to his country roots and a folk vernacular while opening himself up to the influence of French 19th-century Surrealist writers like Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautreamont. A decade before the confessional singer-songwriter who would create the 1975 epic, Blood on the Tracks—which was just optioned by filmmaker Luca Guadagnino—here is Dylan at his most verbally playful and radically inventive. Angry, funny, and strange, the poems and prose in this collection reflect the concerns found in Dylan's most seminal music—a spirit of protest, a poetic spontaneity, and a chronicling of the eccentric and the everyday—which continue to make him a beloved artist and cultural icon.

Bob Dylan's Poetics

Timothy Hampton
Bob Dylan s Poetics Book PDF

Author : Timothy Hampton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781942130239

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Bob Dylan's Poetics by Timothy Hampton Pdf

A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an artist, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism, the book studies the relationship between form, genre, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.

The Nobel Lecture

Bob Dylan
The Nobel Lecture Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781501189401

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The Nobel Lecture by Bob Dylan Pdf

"On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan became the first American musician in history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his Nobel lecture, he reflects on his life and literary influences, providing both an eloquent artistic statement and an intimate look at one of the world's most fascinating cultural figures."--Back cover

If Dogs Run Free

Bob Dylan
If Dogs Run Free Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781451648799

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If Dogs Run Free by Bob Dylan Pdf

An illustrated version of the Bob Dylan song that asks the question "If dogs run free, why not we?"

Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God

Jon Stewart
Dylan Lennon Marx and God Book PDF

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108489812

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Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God by Jon Stewart Pdf

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music's two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music

Theodore Gracyk,Andrew Kania
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music Book PDF

Author : Theodore Gracyk,Andrew Kania
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136821882

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music by Theodore Gracyk,Andrew Kania Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music. Essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, music and musicology.

Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition

Richard F. Thomas
Why Bob Dylan Matters Revised Edition Book PDF

Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780062939456

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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition by Richard F. Thomas Pdf

“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony? In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F. Thomas answers this question with magisterial erudition. A world expert on Classical poetry, Thomas was initially ridiculed by his colleagues for teaching a course on Bob Dylan alongside his traditional seminars on Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. Dylan’s Nobel Prize brought him vindication, and he immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight as a leading academic voice in all matters Dylanological. Today, through his wildly popular Dylan seminar—affectionately dubbed "Dylan 101"—Thomas is introducing a new generation of fans and scholars to the revered bard’s work. This witty, personal volume is a distillation of Thomas’s famous course, and makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of Classical poets. Asking us to reflect on the question, "What makes a classic?", Thomas offers an eloquent argument for Dylan’s modern relevance, while interpreting and decoding Dylan’s lyrics for readers. The most original and compelling volume on Dylan in decades, Why Bob Dylan Matters will illuminate Dylan’s work for the Dylan neophyte and the seasoned fanatic alike. You’ll never think about Bob Dylan in the same way again.

If Not for You

Bob Dylan
If Not for You Book PDF

Author : Bob Dylan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781451648829

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If Not for You by Bob Dylan Pdf

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and illustrator David Walker team up to present this charming, cozy, and touching interpretation of “If Not for You.” If not for you… I’d be sad and blue. If not for you… I just wouldn’t have a clue. If not for you… What would I do? In this inventive interpretation of Bob Dylan’s 1970 song “If Not for You,” illustrator David Walker beautifully imagines Dylan’s lyrics as portraying the bottomless love between a parent and a child—and the magical experiences they might share together.

Small Town Talk

Barney Hoskyns
Small Town Talk Book PDF

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306823213

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Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns Pdf

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren-and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences and associations of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene-and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s-Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.