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Bell, Ian Marcus, Greil Marcus, Greil. O'Connor, Jim Polizzotti, Mark Wilentz, Sean. Wolff, Daniel J.O'Connor, Jim
Summary: Presents a portrait of the iconic music artist that discusses his award-winning achievements, status as a counterculture figure, and influence on such performers as John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and David Bowie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB BASKET DYLANPolizzotti, Mark
Summary: "In this book, Mark Polizzotti examines just what makes the songs on Highway 61 Revisited so affecting, how they work together as a suite, and how lyrics, melody, and arrangements combine to create an unusually potent mix. He blends musical and literary analysis of the songs themselves, biography (where appropriate) and recording information (where helpful). And he focuses on Dylan's mythic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 POLWilentz, Sean.
Summary: One of America's finest historians shows us how one of the country's greatest and most enduring artists still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan's work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYLAN, BOB WILBell, Ian
Summary: "In Once upon a time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws together the tangled strands of the many lives of Bob Dylan in all their contradictory brilliance. For the first time, the laureate of modern America is set in his entire context: musical, historical, literary, political and personal"--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYLAN, BOB BELMarcus, Greil
Summary: "Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYLAN, BOB MARMarcus, Greil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 MARWolff, Daniel J.
Summary: A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017