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In Bob Dylan:The Essential Interviews, edited by Jonathan Cott, 199–236. NewYork: Wenner Books, 2006. Shumway, David R.“Bob Dylan as Cultural Icon.” In The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, editedby KevinJ.H. Dettmar, 110– 121.

Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Lee Marshall

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 ...

Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown

David Yaffe

Offers a historical look at the life and career of Bob Dylan from four perspectives: his relationship to blackness, the influence of his singing style, his image on film, and his songwriting.

Bob Dylan: Voice of a Generation

Jeremy Roberts

Examines the life and career of Bob Dylan, including his childhood in Minnesota, early performances in Greenwich Village, commercial success, and awards.

Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Lee Marshall

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.

Bob Dylan Album File & Complete Discography

Brian Hinton

This is a must for every devoted Dylan fan.

Bob Dylan

Brian Southall

This beautiful book traces Dylan's path from Minnesota to Greenwich Village to worldwide fame, illuminating his groundbreaking impact as never before. Filled with stunning photos, it's an essential history for music fans.

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Bob Dylan

Angry, funny, and strange, the poems and prose in this collection reflect the concerns found in Dylan's most seminal music: a sense of protest, a verbal playfulness and spontaneity, and a belief in the artistic legitimacy of chronicling ...

Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life

Scott M. Marshall

An exclusive, in-depth interview with Carol Dennis, Dylan's former wife, provides an absolutely unique feature to the book. Until now, Dennis has never publicly spoken at length about her former husband.

Who Is Bob Dylan?

Jim O'Connor

In the past five decades, Dylan's work has influenced everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and David Bowie to rapper Eminem. Young music lovers will be fascinated by this great artist's life! From the Hardcover edition.

Bargainin' for Salvation: Bob Dylan, a Zen Master?

Steven Heine

Steven Heine argues that Dylan actually embraces two radically distinct worldviews at alternating periods.

Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors

Neil Corcoran

In this collection, poets and professors explore different aspects of Dylan's work, writing about his impact on their own intellectual and artistic lives, as well as his wider influence.

Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973

Clinton Heylin

He has been flatly contradicted by Tom Paxton, who informed Robbie Woliver that 'there was a hideout room above The Gaslight where we could hang out. Once Dylan was banging out this long poem on Wavy Gravy's typewriter. He showed ...

Dylan Redeemed: From Highway 61 to Saved

Stephen H. Webb

And I need to thank to my family for putting up with "all Bob, all the time" at our house. Asher is the exception to the rule that you can't dance to Dylan tunes. This book is for the Friday night boys: Mark Brouwer, J. D. Phillips, Paul Leplae, Patrick ...

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song

Larry David Smith

Larry David Smith. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Larry David. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American song I Larry David Smith. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-275- 97393-X ...

Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the ...

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As Benjamin Filene notes, Dylan began to see that the protest-song “movement” had crested. Benjamin Filene, Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 212, ...

Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan

David Dalton

Drawing upon Dylan's friends and fellow eyewitnesses--including Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Stampfel , Larry "Ratso" Sloman, Eric Andersen, Nat Hentoff, Andrew Oldham, Nat Finkelstein, and others--this book will provide a new ...

Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis ...

Barney Hoskyns

Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin and Todd Rundgren - and Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants and ...

All across the telegraph: a Bob Dylan handbook

Michael Gray

Dylan Thomas: His Life and Work

John Ackerman

`That brilliant commentator on Dylan, John Ackerman' - Andrew Sinclair, Dylan Thomas: Poet of his People John Ackerman's highly acclaimed study of the poems and prose works of Dylan Thomas traces his development as a writer, linking this ...

Bob Dylan: complete geïllustreerde geschiedenis van de 36 ...

Jon Bream

The Great White Answers: The Bob Dylan Bootleg Records

Dominique Roques

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ...

David Hajdu

The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the ...

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ...

David Hajdu

Tenth Anniversary Edition The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most ...