Folk music : a Bob Dylan biography in seven songs / Greil Marcus ; illustrations by Max Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Greil, author.

Contributor:

Clarke, Max, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dylan, Bob, 1941-.

Dylan, Bob.

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Folk singers--United States--Biography.

Folk singers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Music criticism and reviews.

Songs and music.

Physical Description:

273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan's continuing presence and relevance through his empathy-his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan, but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own."-- Dust jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Blowin' in the Wind / 1962

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll/1964

Ain't Talkin'/ 2006

The Times They Are A-Changin' / 1964

Desolation Row / 1965

Jim Jones / 1992

Murder Most Foul / 2020.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 241-253) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780300255317

0300255314

OCLC:

1343155958