Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan

by Gray, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780826451507
• ISBN10: 0826451500
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

A comprehensive evaluation of Dylan's music traces his evolution from protest singer to born-again Christian.

Table of Contents

Thanks and Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xvii
Notes on the Recording and Release Information	xxiii
Introduction: An Album-by-Album Guide to Dylan's Work	1	(16)
Dylan and the Folk Tradition	17	(28)
Dylan and the Literary Tradition	45	(40)
Dylan and Rock Music	85	(37)
Dylan's Use of Language: Towards Complexity	122	(37)
Dylan's Use of Language: Towards a New Simplicity	159	(35)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune: Drugs and Mysticism	194	(12)
The Coming of the Slow Train	206	(43)
Well I Investigated All the Books in the Library...	249	(19)
Even Post-Structuralists Oughta Have the Pre-War Blues	268	(112)
Closin' the Book on the Pages and the Text?	380	(11)
Yonder Comes Sin: The Retreat from Evangelism	391	(9)
Every Grain of Sand	400	(26)
Groom Still Waiting at the Altar?	426	(38)
Jokerman	464	(53)
Bob Dylan, Blind Willie McTell and `Blind Willie McTell'	517	(31)
Oh Mercy...the Second Half of the 1980s	548	(86)
Nursery Rhyme, Fairy Tale and ``Under The Red Sky''	634	(69)
Good as He's Been in a World Gone Wrong?	703	(82)
Time Out of Mind	785	(50)
There Is Only Up Wing an' Down Wing	835	(44)
Bibliography	879	(18)
Index	897