The Politics and Power of Bob Dylans Live Performances: Play a Song for Me
English
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- While Dylan is not new as an academic subject, this collections focus (on live performance) provides a new window or way to gaze and understand Dylan and his place in our culture.
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- One critical strength is its interdisciplinarity. Looking through several disciplines, bumping against them, and pushing them, gives a multi-functional lens to view Dylan the performer.
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- The contributors represent diverse voices in the next generation of Dylan scholars.
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- This collection fills a void in Dylan Studies by adding a new dimension to the literature of Dylans work through his curation of setlists.
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- These essays underscore the continued importance of deep, scholarly examinations of Dylans career beyond biography and musicology.
Will deliver when available. Publication date 17 Nov 2023