Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century - his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings - have informed and productively re/shaped images of America from outside and within. Refractions of Bob Dylan revolves around the routes of Dylan's cultural appropriations. It investigates his own borrowings but even more so how Bob Dylan has been translated and refigured in culturally and regionally divergent spheres. This volume focuses on how and for which purposes Dylan has been used, depending on cultural and regional contexts. Some accounts look...
Bob Dylan's cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century - his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings - have info...
Refractions of Bob Dylan is a multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. There is, of course, a conscious ambivalence in the notion of cultural appropriation in relation to the work of Bob Dylan. A number of the essays in this book investigate how both Dylan's texts and the cultural formation Dylan have been appropriated in culturally and regionally divergent spheres. When the focus is on Dylan appropriated, translated and refigured, the perspective is less on Dylan than on how and for which purposes he has been used, depending on...
Refractions of Bob Dylan is a multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan's cultural appropriations. There is, of course...
