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Dylan Thomas: His Life and Work

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: The Never Ending Star

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.
Political Rock

Political Rock

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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.
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night ...

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night ...

Elijah Wald

In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the sixties.
The Poems of Dylan Thomas

The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

This new, revised edition of The Poems of Dylan Thomas is based on the collection edited by Thomas's life-long friend and fellow poet, Daniel Jones, first published by New Directions in 1971.
Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

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 ...
Dylan's Redemption: Book Three: The McBrides

Dylan's Redemption: Book Three: The McBrides

Jennifer Ryan

There's a new sheriff in Fallbrook … Meet Dylan McBride.
Bob Dylan Album File & Complete Discography

Bob Dylan Album File & Complete Discography

Brian Hinton

This is a must for every devoted Dylan fan.
Welsh Dylan: Dylan Thomas's Life, Writing, and His Wales

Welsh Dylan: Dylan Thomas's Life, Writing, and His Wales

John Ackerman

Welsh Dylan surveys Thomas's background, upbringing and life in Wales, and discusses the distinctively Welsh flavour of the Swansea stories, his Laugharne-indluenced later poetry, and the warm, gossiping village life that informs perhaps ...
Bob Dylan

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.
Tarantula

Tarantula

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: Like a Complete Unknown

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

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: A Spiritual Life

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?

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?

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

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.
Keeping Holiday

Keeping Holiday

Starr Meade

Each year Dylan's family visits Holiday, and this time his determination to bring home the feelings and experiences of that special place leads Dylan and his cousin Clare on a journey through such places as the Forest of Life and Winterland ...
Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973

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

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 ...
Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other ...

Once Below a Time: Dylan Thomas, Julia Kristeva, and Other ...

Eynel Wardi

Offers a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of Dylan Thomas and Julia Kristeva.
Down Where My Love Lives

Down Where My Love Lives

Charles Martin

Maggie—Life began again for Dylan Styles when his beloved wife Maggie awoke from a coma. In this poignant love story that is redolent with Southern atmosphere, Dylan and Maggie must accept their past before they can embrace their future.
The Kappa: A Study in the Lower Mythology of Japan

The Kappa: A Study in the Lower Mythology of Japan

Michael Dylan Foster

A Study in the Lower Mythology of Japan Michael Dylan Foster. 308t 47? /MAIN The thesis of Michael Dylan Foster is approved: __ 2, 2% /??" 7– 7- Co- ^ Date Chair s *— a Zoo< &2 & 2 <2 - . Date &- W/m/, Date University of California, ...
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of ...

Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of ...

Michael Dylan Foster

Michael Dylan Foster tracks yôkai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media.
Pack

Pack

Vee Anderson

From the other side of the van came walking Dylan and Cole. Dylan was the same height as Gary around six feet, he's got red hair and dark eyes and Jason is the opposite, Jason has blonde hair and light blue eyes and a kind face and he ...
Dylan: Disc by Disc

Dylan: Disc by Disc

Jon Bream

Disc by Disc Jon Bream. Dylan Columbia cobbled together nine outtakes from the Self Portrait and. CHAPTER 13 with Daniel Durchholz and George Varga 1. Lily of the West (E. Davies/J. Peterson) . . . . . . 3:44 2. Can't Help Falling in Love ( G.
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...
Mig og Dylan Walker - eller historien om hvordan jeg ...

Mig og Dylan Walker - eller historien om hvordan jeg ...

Anne Sofie Hammer

For eksempel kom Sara og Alma forbi en dag efter skole for at låne en film af mig, og det første Sara sagde, da hun så mit værelse, var »Hvorfor har du ikke hængt Dylan Walker op endnu?«. Jeg trak lidt på skuldrene. – Der er da ellers plads ...

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