Dreams and dialogues in Dylan's Time out of mind / Graley Herren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herren, Graley, author.

Series:

Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Dylan, Bob.

Dylan, Bob, 1941-. Time out of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem press, 2021.

Summary:

Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These dreams overlap and intermingle, but three primary levels of meaning emerge. On one level, the singer/dreamer envisions himself as a killer awaiting execution for killing his lover. On another level, the song-cycle functions as religious allegory, dramatizing the protagonist's relentless struggles with his lover as a battle between spirit and flesh, earth and heaven, salvation and damnation. On still another level, Time Out of Mind is a meditation on American slavery and racism, Dylan's most personal encounter with the subject, but one tangled up in associations with the minstrelsy tradition and debates surrounding cultural appropriation. Time Out of Mind marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning point toward his late renaissance in terms of both subject matter and intertextual approach.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1-4

Chapter 1 Dreams And Dialogues

A Series of Speeches

Production

Reception

A Series of Interviews

Dreaming in Dylan

A Series of Dreams

Parameters and Approach

Chapter 2 Murder Ballads

The Murder Ballad Tradition

Dylan's Murder Ballads

Love Sickness

Somnicide

Sleepwalking to the Gallows

Defanging the Big Bad Wolf

Chapter 3 Religious Allegory

Allegory and Allegoresis

Dylan's Allegories

From the Red River to the Red Sea

The Pilgrim's Progress and Regress

The Ballads of Job and Lucifer

The Crucifixion Blues

Crossing the Metaphysical Midlands

Chapter 4 Race In America

Emmett Till - Then and Now

Essentialism ↔ Appropriation ↔ Hybridity

Seeing, Hearing and Telling the Blues

Marching and Dreaming

Fugitive Slave Narrative

The Land Where the Blues Began

End Matter

Notes

Chapter 1 Dreams and Dialogues

Chapter 4 Race in America

Bibliography

Song Credits

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

9781785278471

1785278479

9781785278488

1785278487

OCLC:

1252962266