Full Description
Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as "Bob Dylan," renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which even hints at so-called world music and Latin American tones. Then in 2016, his achievements outside of performance - as a songwriter - were acknowledged when he was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. Dylan has never ceased to broaden the range of his creative identity, taking in painting, film, acting and prose writing, as well as advertising and even own-brand commercial production. The book highlights how Dylan has brought his persona(e) to different art forms and cultural arenas, and how they in turn have also created these personae.
This volume consists of multidisciplinary essays written by cultural historians, musicologists, literary academics and film experts, including contributions by critics Christopher Ricks and Nina Goss. Together, the essays reveal Dylan's continuing artistic development and self-fashioning, as well as the making of a certain legitimized Dylan through critical and public recognition in the new millennium.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Some Variations On Late Dylan
Adrian Grafe, Université d'Artois, France
Part 1: Honest with Me: Late Dylan's Performing Personae
1. 'I Made It So Easy for You to Follow Me': A Case for Dylan's Revisionist Art (2012)
Nina Goss, Fordham University, New York, USA
2. Masked, Anonymized and Chronicled: Dylan's Fatal Auto-Mythos for the New Millennium
Jim Salvucci, Union College, Kentucky, USA
3. Performativity, Subversion and Mask-ulinity: Dylan On Screen, Dylan As Screen
Sara Martínez, Lancaster University, UK
4. No Direction Home: When Dylan Does Look Back
Charles Bonnot, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
5. Dylan Does Adverts. Surely Not? Surely?
Andrew McKeown, University of Poitiers, France
6. Bringing the Margin to the Centre: Dylan's Visible Republic
Erin C. Callahan, San Jacinto College, Houston, USA
7. Creation and Re-creation in Dylan's Performances of 'Blowin' in the Wind' (1963-2016)
Julie Mansion-Vaquié, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
8. 'Behind Every Beautiful Thing There's Been Some Kind of Pain': Melancholia in Dylan's Songs and Paintings
Anne-Marie Mai, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
Part 2: Roll on Bob: Late Dylan in Text and Tribute
9. 'A-Journeying Over the Shadow and the Rain': Dylan's Late Style(s)
Jean Du Verger,ENSMM Institute of Engineering, Besançon, France
10. 'The Last Outback at the World's End': Dylan's Sense of an Album's Ending
M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University, USA
11. 'No Success Like Failure'? Dylan's Awards, from Princeton to the Nobel
Denis Feignier, France
12. 'How Could It Be Any Other Way?' Dylan's Editorial Decisions in The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Simon McAslan, Vanier College, Montreal, Canada
13. Dylan's Resources
Christopher Ricks, Boston University, USA
14. Dylan Nobelized? Dylan Ricksified?
Adrian Grafe, Université d'Artois, France
Coda: Late and Timely, Rough and Ready: A Review of Rough and Rowdy Ways
Adrian Grafe, Université d'Artois, France, and Andrew McKeown, University of Poitiers, France
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