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Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine

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BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of Americas most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists.

'If there is anything new to be discovered about Bob Dylan, you can probably find it in The Bob Dylan Centre Now the Bob Dylan Centre is publishing its first book, essentially the archive in miniature: Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine. It is a 608-page tome examining over 1000 images and objects culled from the collection by archivists and curators Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel.' - The Telegraph


Several years ago, a treasure trove containing some 6,000 original Bob Dylan manuscripts was revealed to exist. Their destination? Tulsa, Oklahoma. The documents, as essential as they are intriguingdraft lyrics, notebooks, and diverse ephemera comprise one of the most important cultural archives in the modern world. Along with countless still and moving images and thousands of hours of riveting studio and live recordings, this priceless collection now resides at The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just steps away from the archival home of Dylans early hero, Woody Guthrie.

Nearly all the materials preserved at The Bob Dylan Center are unique, previously unavailable, and, in many cases, even previously unknown. As the official publication of The Bob Dylan Center, BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is the first wide-angle look at the Dylan archive, a book that promises to be of vast interest to both the Nobel Laureates many musical fans as well as a broader cultural audience.

Edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE focuses a close look at the full scope of Dylans working life, particularly from the dynamic perspective of his ongoing and shifting creative processeshis earliest home recordings in the mid-1950s right up through Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020), his most recent studio recording, and into the present day.

The centerpiece of BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is a carefully curated selection of over 600 images including never-before-circulated draft lyrics, writings, photographs, drawings and other ephemera from the Dylan archive.

With an introductory essay by Sean Wilentz and epilogue by Douglas Brinkley, the book features a surprising range of distinguished writers, artists and musicians, including Joy Harjo, Greil Marcus, Michael Ondaatje, Gregory Pardlo, Amanda Petrusich, Tom Piazza, Lee Ranaldo, Alex Ross, Ed Ruscha, Lucy Sante, Greg Tate and many others. After experiencing the collection firsthand in Tulsa, each of the authors was asked to select a single item that beguiled or inspired them. The resulting essays, written specifically for this volume, shed new light on not only Dylans creative process, but also their own.

BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is the magnum opus every Bob Dylan fan has been waiting for since the 60s and will be a landmark publication for the ages. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 2440g
  • Dimensions: 215 x 270mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Callaway EditionsU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781734537796

About

MARK DAVIDSON is the Curator of the Bob Dylan Archive and the Director of Archives and Exhibits for American Song Archives in Tulsa Oklahoma which manages the Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie Centers. Mark earned his PhD in musicology from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2015 with a dissertation titled Recording the Nation: Folk Music and the Government in Roosevelts New Deal 19361941. In 2014 he earned his Masters in Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on archiving and library science. Mark has published numerous articles and essays on music archiving and Bob Dylan including Blood in the Stacks: On the Nature of Archives in the Twenty-First Century published in The World of Bob Dylan (Cambridge University Press 2021). PARKER FISHEL is an archivist and researcher who was co-curator of the inaugural exhibitions at the Bob Dylan Center. Providing archival consulting for numerous musicians and estates under the aegis of Americana Music Productions Fishel is also a co-founder of the improvised music archive Crossing Tones and a board member of the Hot Club Foundation. Highlights from his recording credits include Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 (Third Man Records) a forthcoming box set inspired by the legendary Chelsea Hotel (Vinyl Me Please) and several volumes of the GRAMMY Awardwinning Bob Dylans Bootleg Series.

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