Performed literature
Subtitle: words and music by Bob Dylan
By: Betsy Bowden.
Contributors: Dylan, Bob, 1941-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Dylan, Bob, 1941-; Music and literature; Lyric poetry
Description: Bob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author's Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative examples 24 performances of 11 songs by Bob Dylan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.