Book 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: Words and Music by Bob Dylan, " 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. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index. I
About the Author
Betsy Bowdenis an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of "Listners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography" (Garland, 1988) and "Chaucer Aloud: The Varieties of Textual Interpretation" (UPenn, 1987).
Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan FROM THE PUBLISHER
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: Words and Music by Bob Dylan, " 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. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index. I
Author Biography: Betsy Bowdenis an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of "Listners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography" (Garland, 1988) and "Chaucer Aloud: The Varieties of Textual Interpretation" (UPenn, 1987).
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When Bowden realized that there was a surfeit of dissertation on Chaucer, he turned to contemporary American song writer Dylan (b. 1941). The 1987 dissertation was published in 1982. He has made few changes for the second edition aside from updating references to 1997 (there were publishing delays). His focus remains on the potential for developing performance analysis in folklore, literature, theater arts, musicology, and other fields. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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