Song & Dance Man III

Song & Dance Man III
Author: Michael Gray
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 970
Release: 2000
Genre: Folk singers
ISBN:

This classic is the definitive study of Dylan's 40-year body of songs and recordings. This latest edition offers fresh material, including major studies of Dylan's remarkable use of the blues, nursery rhyme, films and the Bible. This entertaining, authoritiative book has earned exceptional reviews.

Bargainin' for Salvation

Bargainin' for Salvation
Author: Steven Heine
Publisher: Continuum
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Music
ISBN:

"Throughout his various stages, Dylan's work reveals an affinity with the Zen worldview, where enlightenment can be attained through self-contemplation and intuition rather than through faith and devotion. Much has been made of Dylan's Christian periods, but never before has a book engaged Dylan's deep and rich oeuvre through a Buddhist lens."--Back cover.

Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes

Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes
Author: Michael Gray
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1556529759

Biography of a blind man who made light of his disability, who exploded every stereotype about blues musicians.

And Forget My Name

And Forget My Name
Author: Stephen Scobie
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781896860510

And Forget My Name concerns the life of Robert Zimmerman, the youth who would later be known as Bob Dylan. Through poetic interpretations and speculations, Scobie discovers a deeper truth behind one of the great living enigmas of our time.

Language, the Singer and the Song

Language, the Singer and the Song
Author: Richard J. Watts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107112710

The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally is a 'folk song' regardless of its generic origins, it argues that folk song to a far greater extent than other song genres displays 'communal' or 'inclusive' types of performance. The defining feature of folk song as a multi-modal instantiation of music and language is its participatory nature, making it ideal for sociolinguistic analysis. In this sense, a folk song is the product of specific types of developing social interaction whose major purpose is the construction of a temporally and locally based community. Through repeated instantiations, this can lead to disparate communities of practice, which, over time, develop sociocultural registers and a communal stance towards aspects of meaningful events in everyday lives that become typical of a discourse community.

The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia

The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
Author: Michael Gray
Publisher: Continuum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780826429742

The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray. Inside these pages, you'll find a world of ideas, facts, and opinions. It's a world in which Baudelaire flows on from the Basement Tapes and A.S. Byatt looks out at the Byrds; in which Far from the Madding Crowd follows Ezekiel and Bob Geldof introduces Jean Genet; and in which Hank and William Carlos Williams stand side by side while J.R.R. Tolkien trails the Titanic. Most of all, of course, it's a world in which everyone and everything interconnects, in endlessly fascinating ways, with one of our greatest living artists: Bob Dylan. Click here to read an interview with Michael Gray: http://www.continuumbooks.com/news/details.aspx?NewsID=202&ImprintID=2&CountryID=2&ReturnType=2 "Michael Gray... probably Dylan's single most assiduous critic." - New York Review of Books "Fans of Bob Dylan have a multitude of choices when it comes to biographies and retrospectives, but author Michael Gray outdistances them all with this voluminous collection of all things Dylan. ... Insightful and entertaining, Gray's tome will broaden appreciation of the artist, his influences and his legacy." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "...has all you need to know, and more" -Richard Corliss, Time "This is no mere catalog of facts, but a work of oceanic immersion. It has wit, opinion, style, and asks to be read, not just consulted." -Village Voice "Deeply impressive...destined to be the most important Dylan book, bar none."-Gerry Smith, The Dylan Daily "Utterly idiosyncratic." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "Amazingly well-researched and surprisingly readable work." -Library Journal (starred review) "Door-stopping detail." -Toronto Star "Magnificent...won't just astonish readers with its detail about Dylan's work...contains so many insights and refutes so many myths about the rock 'n' roll era in general that it's invaluable as both a reference guide and a personality study." -Nashville City Paper "Comprehensive and up-to-date." -Slate

The Songs He Didn't Write

The Songs He Didn't Write
Author: Derek Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Folk music
ISBN: 9781842404249

While Bob Dylan is known first and foremost as an exceptional composer, he also remains a master interpreter of the songs of others. During a career which now spans more than 45 years, Dylan has covered, in concert or on record, more than 500 songs from the pens of others. Set out in an encyclopaedia style format, this book includes details of every song Dylan has covered. Each song is listed alphabetically, providing a history of the origins of the songs and explanations of how Dylan came to record or perform them. This exhaustive work is the first to cover the topic.

The Routledge History of Literature in English

The Routledge History of Literature in English
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2001
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780415243179

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax
Author: Ronald Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135949212

Alan Lomax is a legendary figure in American folk music circles. Although he published many books, hundreds of recordings and dozens of films, his contributions to popular and academic journals have never been collected. This collection of writings, introduced by Lomax's daughter Anna, reintroduces these essential writings. Drawing on the Lomax Archives in New York, this book brings together articles from the 30s onwards. It is divided into four sections, each capturing a distinct period in the development of Lomax's life and career: the original years as a collector and promoter; the period from 1950-58 when Lomax was recording thorughout Europe; the folk music revival years; and finally his work in academia.