Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

Name: Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan
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ISBN: 9780521714945

ISBN-10: 052171494X

ISBN-13: 9780521714945

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kevin J. H. Dettmar

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A towering figure in American culture and a global twentieth-century icon, Bob Dylan has been at the centre of American life for over forty years. The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan brings fresh insights into the imposing range of Dylan's creative output. The first Part approaches Dylan's output thematically, tracing the evolution of Dylan's writing and his engagement with American popular music, religion, politics, fame, and his work as a songwriter and performer. Essays in Part II analyse his landmark albums to examine the consummate artistry of Dylan's most accomplished studio releases. As a writer Dylan has courageously chronicled and interpreted many of the cultural upheavals in…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Chronology


Introduction




Perspectives



Bob Dylan and the Anglo-American tradition




Bob Dylan and 'The Great Recession'




Bob Dylan as songwriter




Bob Dylan as performer




Bob Dylan and collaboration




Bob Dylan and gender politics




Bob Dylan and religion




Bob Dylan and the Academy




Bob Dylan as cultural icon




Landmark Albums



The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)




Bringing It All Back Home (1965)




Highway 61 Revisited (1965)




Blonde on Blonde (1966)




The Basement Tapes (1967; 1975)




Blood on the Tracks (1975)




Infidels (1983)




Love and Theft (2001)



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