Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967

ISBN-13: 9781501328527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Louis a. Renza

Opis

Many critics have examined Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their cultural influences; their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social-political relevance at the time; their wider philosophical themes; and/or their status for discussion as song-poems. Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation, instead, finds consistent traces of Dylan's ongoing autobiography in all of the songs discussed. Through this lens, the book evokes a -subterranean- Dylan figure, only tangentially related to -Bob Dylan- the cultural celebrity - who ex-amines his own relationship with his vocational goals.