The Dylan companion / edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman.

Other author Thomson, Elizabeth M., 1957-
Other author Gutman, David, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Delta Books, ©1990 (1991 printing)
Descriptionxxxi, 335 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Dylan, Bob, 1941---Criticism and interpretation.

Contents 1. North country blues. Dr Z. Agonistes: an appreciation / Tom Constanten -- The folk music of the 1960s: its rise and fall / Daniel J. Gonczy -- Bob Dylan / Jim Miller -- Is your love in vain: dialectical dilemmas in Bob Dylan's recent love-songs / Michael Roos and Don O'Meara -- 2. Tears of rage. Bob Dylan / Jon Pankake and Paul Nelson -- Bob Dylan: a new voice singing new songs / Gil Turner -- Bob Dylan in the madhouse / Philip Saville -- Bob Dylan / Susan Rotolo -- Baez and Dylan: a generation singing out / Richard Farina -- Don't look back / Andrew Sarris -- 3. Most likely you go your way (and I'll go mine). Beat and ballad / Kenneth Allsop -- Highway 61 revisited / Ed Vulliamy -- The blessing of the damned / Maurice Capel -- All these people that you mention... / Fritz Werner Haver -- Just like the night / Charles Nicholl -- 4. Time passes slowly. Pop festival blast-off / Polly Toynbee -- A feir feld ful of folk / Christopher Logue -- Dylan at Old Nassau (from Rolling Stone) -- Dylan's new morning / Robert D. Campbell -- Tarantula / Robert Christgau -- Summing up the '60s, sizing up the '70s / Ken Kesey -- Three poems / Allen Ginsberg -- Bob Dylan and Billy the Kid / Neil Sinyard -- 5. Winterlude. The metaphor at the end of the funnel / Frank Kermode and Stephen Spender -- Cliches and American English / Christopher Ricks -- The prince / Timothy O'Grady -- Bob Dylan's stories about men / Paul Hodson -- 6. On the road again. Blowin' in the Windy City / Simon Winchester -- A cut above / W.T. Lhamon Jr -- Bob Dylan and friends on the bus, like a rolling thunder / Larry Sloman -- Adolescence now / Adam Lively -- Bob Dylan's dalliance with mafia chic / Lester Bangs -- Bob Dylan's trajectory / A. Manakov -- The Calvary gig / Pauline Kael -- 7. I threw it all away. Born-again Bob: four theories / Ron Rosenbaum -- Amazing chutzpah / Greil Marcus -- Bob Dylan finds his source / Noel Paul Stookey -- Sorry, Bobby / Fran Landesman -- God and man at Columbia / Kurt Loder -- God, mode and meaning in some recent songs of Bob Dylan / Wilfrid Mellers -- Talking about license to kill / David Griffiths -- 8. Too much of nothing. Renaldo and who? / Joan Baez -- Bob Dylan beyond Thunderdome / James Wolcott -- Figured I'd lost you anyway / Geoff Dyer -- The dead and Dylan / Stanley Mieses -- Dylan at Wembley / John Peel -- Speech at the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame / Bruce Springsteen -- The calm after the storm / Richard Williams -- Trust yourself / Robert Shelton.
Abstract "To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan," said Bruce Springsteen at the induction of Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Or to quote John Rockwell, "Anyone who didn't live through the sixties simply cannot realize how important his albums seemed then; they defined a community." Dylan is a musical, literary, political, and religious icon whose lyrics and mystique have spawned countless articles and books. This book is a generous helping of the best, most pungent, and most insightful commentary on Dylan from all phases of his career right up to the present: personal recollections and professional assessments from the likes of Ken Kesey, Greil Marcus, Joan Baez, Andrew Motion, Lester Bangs, Kurt Loder, Allen Ginsberg, Pauline Kael, Geoff Dyer, Simon Winchester, and Robert Christgau--over fifty pieces celebrating the sixty-year-old performer who somehow manages to stay forever young.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 296-315), discography (pages 316-324) and index.
LCCN 90038926
ISBN0385302258 (pbk.)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML420.D98 D97 1990 ✔ Available Place Hold