Highway 61 revisited : Bob Dylan's road from Minnesota to the world / Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sheehy, Colleen J. (Colleen Josephine), 1953-

Swiss, Thomas, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dylan, Bob, 1941-.

Dylan, Bob.

Singers--United States--Biography.

Singers.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Dylan, Bob, 1941---Criticism and interpretation.

Hibbing (Minn.)--History.

Hibbing (Minn.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]

Summary:

The young man from Hibbing released Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? From his roots in Hibbing, to his rise as a cultural icon in New York, to his prominence on the worldwide stage, Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss bring together the most eminent Dylan scholars at work today-as well as people from such far-reaching fields as labor history, African American studies, and Japanese studies-to assess Dylan's career, influences, and his global impact on music and culture. With a special focus on his Minnesota roots, including Greil Marcus's spectacular tour of Dylan's hometown, authors also take into account his most recent work and Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home. The first cultural and historical geography of his dramatic rise, storied career, and unmatched iconic status, Highway 61 Revisited maps the terrain of Bob Dylan's music in the world.

Contents:

Highway 61, from north to south. Hibbing High School and "the mystery of democracy" / Greil Marcus ; Jewish homes on the range, 1890-1960 / Marilyn J. Chiat ; Not from nowhere : identity and aspiration in Bob Dylan's hometown / Susan Clayton

"A lamp is burning in all our dark" : Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash / Court Carney ; Allowed to be free : Bob Dylan and the civil rights movement / Charles Hughes

Planet waves. Lives of allegory : Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol / Thomas Crow ; Like the night : reception and reaction Dylan UK 1966 / C.P. Lee ; Oh, the streets of Rome : Dylan in Italy / Alessandro Carrera ; Bob Dylan's reception in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s / Mikiko Tachi ; Borderless troubadour : Bob Dylan's influence on international protest during the Cold War / Heather Stur

The ancients, whom all moderns prize. Bob Dylan's lives of the poets : Theme time radio hour as buried autobiography / Mick Cochrane ; Bob Dylan's memory palace / Robert Polito ; Among schoolchildren : Dylan's forty years in the classroom / Kevin J.H. Dettmar

In a voice without restraint. Women do Dylan : the aesthetics and politics of Dylan covers / Daphne Brooks and Gayle Wald ; Crow Jane approximately : Bob Dylan's black masque / Aldon Lynn Nielsen ; Not dark yet : how Bob Dylan got his groove back / David Yaffe ; "Nettie Moore" : minstrelsy and the cultural economy of race in Bob Dylan's late albums / Robert Reginio ; "Somewhere down in the United States" : the art of Bob Dylan's ventriloquism / Michael Cherlin and Sumanth Gopinath ; Dylan/disabled : tolling for the deaf and blind / Alex Lubet ; Bob Dylan and the beats : magpie poetics, an investigation and memoir / Anne Waldman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816660995

0816660999

9780816661008

0816661006

OCLC:

286478448