You’d just have to cruise through it the best you can, try to unravel it, feel your way in until you get somewhere. There’s a lot of outstanding music in the past. Works of genius, and much, if not all of it, has been documented. It would take more than a few lifetimes to ...
feel your way in until you get somewhere. There’s a lot of outstanding music in the past. Works of genius, and much, if not all of it, has been documented. It would take more than a few lifetimes to hear it all. Musically, it would be too much to comprehend. You’d have to l...
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although...
If you were to be uninspired by Dylan’s prose on all and sundry, the book is interlaced and larded over with a tremendous array of photos and graphic images. The pix range from old sheet music covers to FSA style photos to graphic ad man fodder, to a glossy of Pete Seeger’s...
Because of this, let’s revisit some of the values of music. And know the values of music have become increasingly clear. Why now and how so? During pandemic-based online classes last Fall, one of my graduate students announced: “I’m so grateful to have a job; but I hate teaching ...
This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song. Its author, Andrew Kania, begins by asking whether Bob Dylan should even have been eligible for the Nobel Prize...
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylans ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and ...
Bob Dylan’s free-ranging “The Philosophy of Modern Song” offers 66 essays on music, from Tin Pan Alley to the Grateful Dead.Photo: Bob Dylan It may help to think of Bob Dylan smiling while reading “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” the first book by the musician and provocateur si...
On their first four albums, U2 reached an international audience on the strength of their post-punk sound. For their fifth release, frontman Bono wanted to change directions. Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones had introduced the U2 singer to blues, country and folk music. That, coupled with th...
will contain more than 60 essays on the craft of songwriting, looking at music by artists like Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, and Nina Simone. In the book, Dylan “analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, ...