Brown, Donald, 1959- author.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
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Part of the series Tempo : a Rowman & Littlefield music series on rock, pop, and culture;Tempo (Lanham, Md.)
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- Includes discography (pages 245-249), bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.
- Series editor’s foreword — Timeline — Acknowledgments — Introduction — Becoming Bob Dylan (1960-1964) — Electric Dylan (1965-1966) — Rural glory (1967) — Take me as I am (1968-1973) — Back in the rain (1974-1978) — Changing of the guard (1978-1981) — Rock and roll dreams (1983-1990) — Good enough for now (1989-1997) — Bob Dylan revisited (2000-2012) — Epilogue: Now the rest is history — Further reading — Further listening — Index — About the author.
- Overview: Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art forms, rock and pop music comment on their cultural, political, and even economic situation, reflecting the technological advances, psychological concerns, religious feelings, and artistic trends of their times. Whether you are a professional musician or regular listener, diehard fan or music student, titles in the Tempo series are the ideal introduction to major pop and rock artists and the music they produced and their cultural and musical impact on society. With each year, new books appear on Bob Dylan, attesting to his continuing importance as a major figure in American music and culture. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book on Dylan to look at his entire career, from his first album to his most recent, Tempest, released 50 years later in 2012. In a brief compass, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan’s entire corpus, placing full scope of Dylan’s career in the context of its times in order to assess the relationship of Dylan’s music to contemporary American culture. Each chapter addresses a particular phase of Dylan’s career, taking its cue from events in Dylan’s life and from the collective experiences that shaped the times. As the artist who famously proclaimed the times, they are a-changin’, Dylan was never static as an artist, his music altering as the times changed. In Bob Dylan: American Troubadour, Donald Brown follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory songs from his influential rock albums of the mid-’60s to his adaptations of Country music from his three very different tours in the 1970s to his born again period as a proselytizer for Christ, to his frustrations as a recording and performing artist in the 1980s from hi
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