The Gospel According to Bob Dylan

by Gilmour, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780664232078
• ISBN10: 0664232078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Since the early 1960s, music fans have found Bob Dylan's spirituality fascinating, and many of them have identified Dylan as a kind of spiritual guru. This book, written by a scholar who is a longtime fan, examines DylanÂ's mystique, asking why audiences respond to him as a spiritual guide. This book reveals Bob Dylan as a major twentieth- and twenty-first-century religious thinker with a body of relevant work that goes far beyond a handful of gospel albums.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
The Flâneur Plays Guitar	p. 1
The Gospel according to Bob Dylan: Are You Serious?	p. 21
Not a Prophet or Savior... Elvis Maybe: Bob Dylan's Devoted Disciples	p. 48
"He's the Property of Jesus": The Gospel Period	p. 67
That Most Serious of Subjects: The Good Book, the Testaments Both Old and New	p. 96
"Searchin' High, Searchin' Low" for Religious Meaning in Bob Dylan's Music	p. 113
Concluding Thoughts	p. 136
Appendix: Bob Dylan's Career in Stolen Moments	p. 141
Notes	p. 149
Selected Bibliography	p. 176
Index	p. 179
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