The Political World of Bob Dylan
Subtitle: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 16, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781137482341
Description: This is a definitive book on the politics of Bob Dylan. It comprehensively investigates Dylan's relationship to the social, political, and religious cultures that acted upon him and to which he reacted. Generally associated with the New Left politics of the 1960s, Dylan's political worldview transcends that narrow description. The ideas he has expressed in songs and interviews can be categorized as traditional, populist, and Christian anarchistic. From his youth in Minnesota to the present, Dylan has embodied a political view that supports the underdog, questions those in power, and subscribes to sacred, universal truths [Publisher description]
Notes: Source title: The Political World of Bob Dylan: Freedom and Justice, Power and Sin (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)