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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Music for the common man : the Popular Front and Aaron Copland's America
• Penetrating aether : the Beat generation and Allen Ginsberg's America
• Darkness at the break of noon : The concert at Philharmonic Hall, New York City, October 31, 1964
• The sound of 3:00 a.m. : The making of Blonde on blonde, New York City and Nashville, October 5, 1965-March 10(?), 1966
• Children of paradise : The Rolling Thunder Revue, New Haven, Connecticut, November 13, 1975
• Many martyrs fell : "Blind Willie McTell," New York City, May 5, 1983
• All the friends I ever had are gone: "Delia," Malibu, California, May 1993
• Dylan and the sacred harp : "Lone pilgrim," Malibu, California, May 1993
• The modern minstrel returns : "Love and theft," September 11, 2001, and the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, August 3, 2002
• Bob Dylan's civil wars : Masked and anonymous, July 23, 2003, and Chronicles : volume one, October 5, 2004
• Dreams, schemes, and themes : Modern times, August 29, 2006; Theme Time Radio Hour with your host Bob Dylan, May 3, 2006-April 15, 2009; The bootleg series, vol. 8 : Tell tale signs : rare and unreleased, 1989-2006, October 7, 2008; and Together through life, April 28, 2009
• Coda. Can you hear what I hear? Christmas in the heart, October 13, 2009.

Author/Creator:

Wilentz, Sean

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Bob Dylan in America [by Wilentz, S.]

Subjects:

Dylan, Bob, 1941-

Singers — United States — Biography

Singers

United States

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359), discography (p. 360-366), and index.

Physical Description:

x, 390 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

ML420.D98 W53 2010

ISBNs:

9780385529884
0385529880

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009047636

OCLC Numbers:

465191605