Hughes Invisible Now: Bob Dylan in the 1960s

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-11301-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series

Invisible Now describes Bob Dylan's transformative inspiration as artist and cultural figure in the 1960s. Hughes identifies Dylan's creativity with an essential imaginative dynamic, as the singer perpetually departs from a former state of inexpression in pursuit of new, as yet unknown, powers of self-renewal. This motif of temporal self-division is taken as corresponding to what Dylan later referred to as an artistic project of 'continual becoming', and is explored in the book as a creative and ethical principle that underlies many facets of Dylan's appeal. Accordingly, the book combines close discussions of Dylan's mercurial art with related discussions of his humour, voice, photographs, and self-presentation, as well as with the singularities of particular performances. The result is a nuanced account of Dylan's creativity that allows us to understand more closely the nature of Dylan's art, and its links with American culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Themes: ’Continual becoming’; Humour; Photographs; Voice; Leave taking; Aversiveness; Inspiration. Part 2 The 1960s: ’Mind like a trap’: Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’; ’Weird monkey’: Another Side of Bob Dylan and Bringing It All Back Home; ’There is no eye’: Highway 61 Revisited; ’Trapeze artist’: Blonde on Blonde; ’Ghosts passing through on their way to Tangiers’: The Basement Tapes; ’Not too far but just far enough so’s we can say we’ve been there’: John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John Hughes teaches literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He has published widely on Romantic and nineteenth-century literature, and twentieth-century philosophy. He has written three previous books - Lines of Flight (1996), ’Ecstatic Sound’: Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy (Ashgate, 2001) and Affective Worlds: Literature, Feeling, Nineteenth-Century Literature (2011).