Wicked messenger
Subtitle: Bob Dylan and the 1960s
By: Mike Marqusee.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781583226865
Subjects: Dylan, Bob, 1941- -- Criticism and interpretation; Protest songs -- United States -- History and criticism; Nineteen sixties; United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
Description: Bob Dylan's abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of his critique to address the changing political and cultural climate and, more importantly, his own evolving aesthetic. Tracing the development of the [1960s] political and cultural dissent movements, Marqusee shows how their twists and turns were anticipated in the poetic aesthetic--anarchic, unaccountable, contradictory, punk--of Dylan's mid-sixties albums, as well as in his recent artistic ventures in Chronicles, Vol. I and Masked and Anonymous. [Publisher web site].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, webology, and index.
"Revised and expanded edition"--Prelims.
Originally published: Chimes of freedom : the politics of Bob Dylan. New York : New Press, 2003.