Full Description
Teaching Bob Dylan offers educators practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses (or units within courses) on the life, music, career, and critical reception of Bob Dylan. Drawing on the latest pedagogical developments and best classroom practices in a range of fields, the contributors present concrete approaches for teaching not only Dylan's lyrics and music, but also his many—and sometimes abrupt or unexpected—changes in musical direction, numerous creative guises, and writings. Situating Dylan and his work in their musical, literary, historical, and cultural contexts, the essays explore ways to teach Dylan's connections to African American music and performers, American popular music, the Beats, Christianity, and the revolutions of the 1960s, and more, and offer strategies for incorporating, and analyzing, not only documentaries and films about or featuring Dylan, but also critical and biographical studies on multiple dimensions of an American icon's long and complex career.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bob Dylan, Teacher
Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University, USA, and Brady Harrison, University of Montana, USA
Part I. Origins & Ways of Making
1. Teaching Bob Dylan's Voice and the Old, Weird America
John Mac Kilgore, Florida State University, USA
2. Bob Dylan and Conceptual Blending
Michael Booth, University College Cork, Ireland
Part II. Dylan & History
3. Teaching the "Revolutions" of the 1960s through Bob Dylan
David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
4. Bob Dylan and the Expansion of the History Classroom
Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University, USA
Part III. Love & Theft
5. Teaching the Gospel
Lauren Onkey, George Washington University, USA
6. The World of Bob Dylan
Gayle Wald, George Washington University, USA
7. Teaching the Roots of Bob Dylan as a Mode of Cultural Self-Reflection in the Classroom: Early Rock and Roll and Hip-Hop
Robert Reginio, Alfred University, USA
Part IV. Dylan & Literary Studies
8. On the Road (Again) with Bob Dylan, A Poet among (Beat) Poets
S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA
9. Mixing Up the Medicine: A Course on Bob Dylan and the Beats
Paul Haney, Emerson College, USA
10. Romances with Durango: Teaching Bob Dylan's Encounter with Mexican Culture
Robert Hurd, Anne Arundel Community College, USA
Part V. Dylan Beyond the Songs
11. Teaching Chronicles
Graley Herren, Xavier University, USA
12. Bob Dylan and Documentary Film
Leigh H. Edwards, Florida State University, USA
Part VI. Afterword
Why Teach Dylan?
Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University, USA
Appendix A: Contributor Syllabi
Appendix B: Course Materials
List of Contributors
Index
