Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs image
ISBN-10:

0300255314

ISBN-13:

9780300255317

Author(s): MARCUS, Greil
Released: Oct 11, 2022
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
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Description:

Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs\n“The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan’s imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . . [is an] ingenious book of close listening.”—David Remnick, New Yorker\n“Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n“Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic.”—Hilton Als\nAcross seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen.\nIn Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan’s story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus’s point of departure is Dylan’s ability to “see myself in others.” Like Dylan’s songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan’s continuing presence and relevance through his empathy—his imaginative identification with other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own.


























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