Polyvocal Bob Dylan : music, performance, literature / Nduka Otiono, Josh Toth, editors.
Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylans musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Foreign Sounds of Dylan's Literary Art; Chapter Descriptions; An Introductory Conclusion; References; Part I: Literature and Music; Chapter 2: Restless Epitaphs: Revenance and Dramatic Tension in Bob Dylan's Early Narratives; A Poet Who Happens to Be a Singer; Historical Sense and Folk Sense; The Revenance the Sound of Sense Makes; Archetype Rules of Poetic Songwriting; Restless Epitaphs: "North Country Blues" and "Ballad of Hollis Brown"; Farewell; References; Chapter 3: Dylan's Deixis; References.
- Chapter 4: Not Just Literature: Exploring the Performative Dimensions of Bob Dylan's WorkVarying Vowels; Reshaping in Respirating; Convivial Condensing; Tactics of Attack; References; Chapter 5: The Complexities of Freedom and Dylan's Liberation of the Listener; Axel Honneth and the Complexities of Freedom; The Times They are a-Changin'-How About the Audience?; References; Part II: Performance and Literature; Chapter 6: "Blowin' in the Wind": Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard and the Question of American Identity; Cowboy Mouths, Masks and The Rolling Thunder Logbook.
- "Brownsville Girl" and the Mythic West"Brownsville Girl" and the American Dream; Tooth of Crime and the Gypsy; "True Dylan" and Survival; References; Chapter 7: Bob Dylan's "Westerns": Border Crossings and the Flight from "the Domestic"; Early Border Crossings; Romance in Durango; New Desires; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: "I Don't Do Sketches from Memory": Bob Dylan and Autobiography; Politics and the Poetic Self; "Idiot Wind" and Self-Obfuscation; Chronicles and Self-Revelation; Life as Lyric; References.
- Chapter 9: Beyond Genre: Lyrics, Literature, and the Influence of Bob Dylan's Transgressive Creative ImaginationA Circle of Poets United by Dylan; Reflections by Uche Nduka; Reflections by Afam Akeh; Reflections by Olu Oguibe; The Ecstasy of Influence; Conclusion; References; Notes on Contributors; Index.