Bob Dylan

Lee Marshall 지음

Polity 2013년 04월 24일 출간

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Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today.As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless books and intricate scholarship considering various dimensions of both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan as a rock star. Whatever else Dylan is, he is a star - iconic, charismatic, legendary, enigmatic. No one else in popular music has maintained such star status for so long a period of time.Showing how theories of stardom can help us understand both Bob Dylan and the history of rock music, Lee Marshall provides new insight into how Dylan's songs acquire meaning and affects his relationship with his fans, his critics and the recording industry. Marshall discusses Dylan's emergence as a star in the folk revival (the quot;spokesman for a generationquot;) and the formative role that Dylan plays in creating a new type of music - rock - and a new type of star. Bringing the book right up to date, he also sheds new light on how Dylan's later career has been shaped by his earlier star image and how Dylan repeatedly tried to throw off the limitations and responsibilities of his stardom.The book concludes by considering the revival of Dylan over the past ten years and how Dylan's stardom has developed in a way that contains, but is not overshadowed by, his achievements in the 1960s.

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Acknowledgements Note on references The theoretical bit: Why looking at stardom is important for understanding Dylan; Different approaches to stardom, and the most important bits of the theories; How we hear songs; Whether words or voice are most important; How stardom affects the meaning of songs. Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Stardom, Authorship and the Meaning of Songs Authorship and song meaning How we hear music: recordings, words and voice Voice, character and personality Stardom, personality and the &-illusion of intimacy&- Stardom, the voice and the meaning of songs Dylan&-s sixties stardom: Dylan&-s emergence in the folk revival and the contradictions of being a &-folk star&-; His move into rock, political individualism and the tensions between culture and commerce; Dylan&-s withdrawal from the scene in the late sixties; His attempts to reclaim his stardom and their effect on the rest of his career. Career Snapshot Chapter 3: Folk Stardom: Star as Ordinary, Star as Special Folk music and the folk revival Dylan and the folk revival The baby-boomers, folk music and individualism Stardom, folk music and mass culture Career Snapshot Chapter 4: Rock Stardom: Reconciling Culture and Commerce Dylan, rock and transition The art ideology: self and transcendence The folk ideology: the rock community and the politics of the self Bob Dylan, the ultimate rock star Career Snapshot Chapter 5: Beyond Stardom: Rock History and Canonisation Keeping silent Saying nothing After the crash: Dylan&-s post-60s stardom Dylan&-s later stardom: Changing social values and Dylan&-s problems in the 1980s; Dylan&-s attempt to reconstruct the relationship with his audience; An overview of the Never Ending

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"One of the most enlightening of the 115 titles currently weighing down my groaning Zim bookshelf ... Readers are lucky that an expert fellow fan has applied his specialist insight to create an original, compelling explanation of the 'Bob Dylan' phenomenon. And that he&-s done so with such an accessible and stylishly written book."Dylan Daily"A rich, highly readable cultural history of popular music from the early 1960s to the present, read through and around Dylan's remarkable public career."Times Higher Education Supplement"Marshall has an excellent grasp of what rock music has meant within popular culture and how it has changed over time, and gives in this book the clearest explanation I have ever come across of rock&-s (and therefore Dylan&-s) place within post-modernism. Moreover, he really knows his Dylan."Isis"A landmark new study of the star's career."Bristol Evening Post"As Lee Marshall shows us, plenty is left to say about Dylan and his many personas ... An inventive and captivating study of Dylan that not only looks at his folk years but also examines his current face."Electric Review"Finally, a Bob Dylan book that is refreshingly bereft of 1960s nostalgia: Lee Marshall challenges much received wisdom by arguing that Dylan&-s touring and performances since the late 1980s are central to his music. This is an important book. It represents a major contribution to studies of stardom and a provocative intervention into debates about the art and identity of Bob Dylan."Keith Negus, Goldsmiths, University of London"This is a remarkable book, one of the few truly original ways of looking at Bob Dylan that I've seen in recent years. What Marshall gives you is not so much fresh interpretations of individual Dylan songs, but rather a completely rethought context for understanding the whole of Dylan's career, analysing the social

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저자(글) Lee Marshall

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Lee Marshall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol.