Bob dylan biography primary sources
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Bob Dylan: American Poet
Bowden, Betsy. Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan. Bloomington: Indiana UP, Print.
Bowden first drafted this book as a Ph.D. dissertation in the English department at UC Berkeley in the '70s. It's a useful and generally interesting discussion of individual songs as performances on record and on stage; a central thesis is that neither sociological nor literary ("These lyrics . . . are not poems. They are songs: words and music combined for oral performance.") nor musicological analyses, alone, can approach the richness of Dylan's art. So she examines elements of performance such as vocal inflection, instrumentation, tempo, phrasing, sliding pitches, pauses, and "voice-forced rhyme." Her work is largely informed by folklorists' studies of oral performance, as well as her own experience with Dylan's songs on record and on stage. As a matter of fact, the pre
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Bob Dylan in America, bygd Sean Wilentz
New York: Doubleday,
MNHS call number: MLD9 W
Dylan in Minnesota: Just Like Bob Zimmerman's Blues, by Dave Engel.
Rudolph, Wis.: River City Memoirs-Mesabi,
MNHS call number: MLD9 E63
Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota, by Toby Thompson.
Rev. ed., New ed., 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
MNHS call number: MLD9 T5
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World, edited by Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
MNHS call number: MLD9 H54
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, by Clinton Heylin.
New York: William Morrow,
MNHS call number: MLD9 H
Bob Dylan: An Illustrated History, produced by Michael Gross; with a ord by Robert Alexander.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap,
MNHS call number: Reading Room ML .D9 G76
Bob D
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Chronicles, by Bob Dylan.
Volume 1.
New York: Simon & Schuster,
MNHS call number: MLD9 A3
Dylan: A Biography, by Bob Spitz.
New York: McGraw-Hill,
MNHS call number: MLD9 S6
Dylan in Minnesota: Just Like Bob Zimmerman's Blues, by Dave Engel.
Rudolph, Wis.: River City Memoirs-Mesabi,
MNHS call number: MLD9 E63
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World, edited by Colleen J. Sheehy and Thomas Swiss.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
MNHS call number: MLD9 H54
Bob Dylan Research Collection, collected by Dennis Anderson.
Bibliographies, magazine articles and book excerpts, syllabi, chronologies, student papers, interviews, correspondence, and fan magazines related to the work of a Bob Dylan scholar who taught seminars on Dylan and American culture at German universities during the s and early s. The collection contains English and German language material and provides both Amer