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Bob Dylan in America / Sean Wilentz.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385529884 (hc) :
- Physical Description: x, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, discography and index. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 782.42164092 Dylan-W | 31681002122869 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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A Grammy Award-nominated musical commentator and Bancroft Prize-winning author presents a historical assessment of Bob Dylan's music that draws on unprecedented access to rare materials and illuminates key cultural influences. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
A noted historian presents an assessment of Bob Dylan and his music that draws on unprecedented access to rare materials and illuminates key cultural influences. - Baker & Taylor
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. Drawn in part from Wilentz's essays as "historian in residence" of Dylan's official website, this book is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity--a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan's story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with authenticity and richness.--From publisher description. - Random House, Inc.
One of Americaâs finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the countryâs greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovÂered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylanâs work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentzâs essays as âhistorian in residenceâ of Dylanâs official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinityâa book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.
Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentzâs approach places Dylanâs music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a songÂwriter and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylanâs story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.
Bob Dylan in Americaâgroundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbingâis the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.
