| Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967 Contributor(s): Renza, Louis A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501352016 ISBN-13: 9781501352010 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $46.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Printed Music - Artist Specific - Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional |
| Dewey: 782.421 |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock'n'roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as "poems." Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal "autobiography" in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons. |
Contributor Bio(s): Renza, Louis A.: - Louis A. Renza is an Emeritus Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA. He has published critical works on various US writers such as Poe, Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and Wallace Stevens. Starting in the 1970s and through 2010, he taught a Dartmouth course on Bob Dylan's lyrics, directed a 2006 conference at Dartmouth College on Dylan, and has published an article on his works in the Winter, 2008 journal a/b (Auto/Biography) entitled "Bob Dylan's 116th Dream." |