| Description |
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. I was young when I left home (1961-1969). My life in a stolen moment / Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan : a distinctive folk-song stylist / Robert Shelton -- Woody Guthrie visited by Bob Dylan : Brooklyn State Hospital, New York 1961 / David Wojahn -- Flat tire / Paul Nelson and Jon Pankake -- Letter to Broadside / Johnny Cash -- The crackin', shakin', breakin' sounds / Nat Hentoff -- Excerpt from The mansion on the hill / Fred Goodman -- Excerpt from Positively 4th Street / David Hajdu -- What's happening / Paul Nelson -- Excerpt from KQED press conference, December 3, 1965 / Bob Dylan -- In Berkeley they dig Bob Dylan / Ralph J. Gleason -- Excerpt from "Rock lyrics are poetry (maybe) / Robert Christgau -- John Wesley Harding / Robert Christgau -- Excerpt from Owl farm--winter of '68 / Hunter S. Thompson. |
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pt. 2. Blood on the tracks (1970-1978). Self portrait no. 25 / Greil Marcus -- Postcard to D-- / Allen Ginsberg -- On reading Dylan's writings / Allen Ginsberg -- Dylan / Hendrik Hertzberg and George Trow -- Bringing some of it all back home / Clive James -- Blood on the tracks / Rick Moody -- Shelter from the storm / Bob Dylan -- Excerpt from The old, Weird America / Greil Marcus -- Night of the hurricane / Sam Shepard -- Excerpt from Shaman hisses You slide back into the night / Anne Waldman -- Excerpt from The force of pPoetry / Christopher Ricks. |
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pt. 3. Saved (1979-1996). Dylan--"I learned that Jesus is real and I wanted that" / Robert Hilburn -- Love or confusion? / Lester Bangs -- Infidels / Clinton Heylin -- Excerpt from Song and dance man III / Michael Gray -- A short life of trouble / Sam Shepard -- Excerpt from liner notes to Biograph / Cameron Crowe -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speech / Bruce Springsteen -- Stillborn again / Howard Hampton -- excerpt from Songwriters on songwriting / Paul Zollo -- Ode / Michael McClure -- World gone wrong Again / Tom Piazza. |
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pt. 4. When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose (1997- ). Dylan revisited / David Gates -- Shadow play : B-C-D and back / Robert Polito -- Song for Bob Dylan / Norbert Krapf -- Dylan at 60 / Bono, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates and Camille Paglia -- American recordings : On love and theft and The minstrel boy / Sean Wilentz -- Intelligence data / Greg Tate -- Constant time for Bob Dylan / Barry Hannah -- Bob Dylan the singer : who's gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin? / Gary Giddins -- The wanderer / Alex Ross. |
| Subject |
Dylan, Bob, 1941-
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| Added Author |
Hedin, Benjamin.
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| ISBN |
0393058441 hardcover |
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