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Title All along Bob Dylan America and the world / edited by Tymon Adamczewski
Published New York : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Routledge studies in contemporary literature.
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The "Thing" about Bob Dylan -- Section 1 Geographies -- 1 Bob Dylan's Minnesota Roots -- 2 At the Origins of the New Folk Star: Bob Dylan's New York Period (1961-1963) -- 3 Dylan on Nostalgia: Idealising the Past and Paralysing the Present -- Section 2 Receptions -- 4 Bob Dylan and the Invasion of Mexico -- 5 Conspiring to Be Unknown -- or, Is a Bob Dylan There? -- 6 Bob Dylan -- The Unwilling Icon of the Counterculture -- 7 The Polish Internet Discourse on Dylan
Section 3 Perspectives -- 8 The Dylanesque Confluence of the Multitude: From Bob Dylan Inspired to Bob Dylan the Inspirer -- 9 Dylan and Springsteen: Master and Follower Look at America -- 10 Bob Dylan's Character(s) on Screen -- 11 The Geometry of Love and Lies: Re-Shaping Italian Literature through Dylan's Lyrics -- Index
Summary All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the inherently complex and varied material produced or associated with the iconic artist. The chapters, organized around three broad thematic sections (Geographies, Receptions and Perspectives), address the notions of audience, performance and identity, allowing to map out the structure of feeling and authenticity, both, in the case of the artist and his audience. Taking its cue from the collapse of the so-called high-/ low culture split following from the Nobel Prize, the book explores the argument that Dylan (and all popular music) can be interpreted as literature and offers discussions in the context of literary traditions, or visual culture and music. This contributes to a nuanced and complex portrayal of the seminal cultural phenomenon called Bob Dylan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Tymon Adamczewski, Ph.D., is assistant professor at the Department of Anglophone Literatures of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he teaches literary and cultural studies. His academic interests revolve around the critical discourses of contemporary humanities, music and ecocriticism
Subject Dylan, Bob, 1941- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dylan, Bob, 1941- fast
Subject Popular music -- History and criticism
Music and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Music and literature
Popular music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Adamczewski, Tymon, editor.
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