music theory, performance practice, gender studies, philosophy, jazz studies, and cultural anthropology, while at the 30th Anniversary of the Feminist Theory & Music Conference at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), I met musicologist, pianist, and educator Anneli Loepp Thiessen. And...
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...
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在获得诺奖后出的第一本书,不是期待已久的自传第二卷,而是一本歌曲评论集。他挑选了66首歌,没有明说挑选的标准,风格不一,年代跨度从1920年代到70年代。他像是一个随心所欲的DJ跟着自己的记忆列出了一张长长的私人歌单。读这本书的时候配合着听Apple Music上对应这本书的歌单,读一首听一首,这种感受...
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...
"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes ove...
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, a...
Dylan in his childhood was spurred on – nay, obsessed with – the music he heard on the radio, signals from another and more alluring world. He washes out at the University of Minnesota after a year and hitchhikes on a bohemian mission to New York. Arriving in the ferment of ...
Paul Lodge Philosophy & Music Professor atOxford Universitymaking music of a philosophical nature Upcoming Performances Jericho Tavern, Oxford - Thurs 22 May. 7pm Past Performances Projects “Listening to Paul Lodge reconciled me to Bob Dylan being given the Nobel prize. I did get it before, but...