Dylan's autobiography of a vocation : a reading of the lyrics 1965-1967
Popular music Dylan, Bob,
Bloomsbury Academic
2017
EISBN 9781501328527
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Dylan 1965; Introduction; Chapter 1: Return to Me: Bringing It All Back Home; 1 Social critique/Existential spiritual; 2 Leaving home; 3 On the outside looking inward; 4 Homeless art; Chapter 2: Rebel without a Cause II: Highway 61 Revisited; 1 Spectacles of desolation; 2 To be alone with you; 3 "Nothing" else; 4 The private art of desolation; Chapter 3: Reflections on Self-reflections: Blonde on Blonde; 1 The repetition of Vox Clamantis in Deserto; 2 Close evaders of the real; 3 Final moments of seduction.
Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as "poems." Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal "autobiography" in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.
Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as "poems." Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal "autobiography" in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.
