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Bob Dylan : the never ending star / Lee Marshall.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.D98 M168 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Lee.
- Series:
- Celebrities
- Celebrities series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dylan, Bob, 1941-.
- Dylan, Bob.
- Rock musicians--United States--Biography.
- Rock musicians.
- United States.
- Rock music--United States.
- Rock music.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2007.
- Summary:
- Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today.
- As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless books considering various dimensions of both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan as a rock star. Whatever else he is, Dylan is a star - iconic, charismatic, legendary, enigmatic. No one else in popular music has maintained such star status over so long a period. Lee Marshall provides new insight into Dylan's career, discussing his emergence as a star in the folk revival (the "spokesman for a generation") and the formative role he played in creating a new type of music - rock - and a new type of star. Bringing the book right up to date, he also sheds new light on how Dylan's later career has been shaped by his earlier star image and how Dylan repeatedly tried to throw off the limitations and responsibilities of his stardom.
- Contents:
- 2 Stardom, Authorship and the Meaning of Songs 14
- Snapshot: The man of the people 49
- 3 Folk Stardom: Star as Ordinary, Star as Special 52
- Snapshot: The chameleon poet 85
- 4 Rock Stardom: Reconciling Culture and Commerce 88
- Snapshot: The retiring father 115
- 5 Beyond Stardom: Rock History and Canonisation 118
- Snapshot: The rock legend 149
- 6 Declining Stardom: Nostalgia and the 'Death of Rock' 152
- Snapshot: The wandering minstrel 183
- 7 Redefining Stardom: The Never Ending Tour 186
- Snapshot: The soul of previous times 229
- 8 Never Ending Stardom: Dylan after Time Out Of Mind 232.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745636412
- 0745636411
- 074563642X
- 9780745636429
- OCLC:
- 145388600
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