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The political art of Bob Dylan / edited by David Boucher and Gary Browning.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dylan, Bob, 1941---Criticism and interpretation.
- Dylan, Bob.
- Dylan, Bob, 1941---Political and social views.
- Popular music--Political aspects--United States.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bob Dylan is one of the most significant figures in popular culture. In this book, the authors provide a multi-faceted analysis of his political art. They address Dylan's career as a whole, dealing with such themes as alienation, protest, non-conformity, the American Dream, modernity and postmodernism and pivotal moments of Dylan's career such as the 'Judas' accusation at the 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall concert and Dylan's comments on the need to aid American farmers at Live Aid, 1985. Dylan's songs are analysed for their political meaning and for the songs in contemporary American political and popular culture. As notable specialists in the fields of political theory, literary criticism and popular culture the authors examine Dylan's work from a variety of perspectives-aesthetic theory, Kant, Adorno, Lyotard, Lorca and Collingwood. Collectively, they question how Dylan's work relates to the theory and practice of politics.In this second revised and expanded edition, the chap.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Contents ; Front Matter ; Title Page ; Publisher Information ; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors ; The Political Art of Bob Dylan ; Preface; Introduction; The Drifter's Escape; Bob Dylan's Critique of Judgement: 'Thinkin' about the Law' ; Judas and the Many 'Betrayals' of Bob Dylan ; The Cry of Humanity: Dylan's Expressionist Period ; Bob Dylan, Live Aid, and the Politics of Popular Cosmopolitanism ; Bob Dylan: (Post) Modern Times ; 'You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way': Freedom and the Past in Dylan's Recent Work
- Images and Distorted Facts: Politics, Poetry and Protest in the Songs of Bob Dylan Back Matter ; Bob Dylan Time Line; Also Available
- Notes:
- Originally published: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84540-653-2
- OCLC:
- 941700283
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