Full 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 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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Overview
Chapter 4 Protests
Chapter 5 Developments
Chapter 6 Performances
Chapter 7 Causes
Chapter 8 Effects
Chapter 9 Improvements
Chapter 10 Aesthetics
Chapter 11 Texts and Recording Information for Performances Discussed
Chapter 12 Dylan's Albums 1961-1976
Chapter 13 Practical Suggestions for Analysis of Performance
Chapter 14 Published Reference Sources on Bob Dylan
Chapter 15 A Dylan Chronology, through 1997
Chapter 16 The Dylan Exam, F69, UW Madison
Chapter 17 Notes; Bibliography; Index
