Portelli Hard Rain

Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55623-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: The Columbia Oral History Series

Bob Dylan’s iconic 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores the power and resonance of the song, considering the meanings of history and memory in folk cultures and in Dylan’s work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Portelli, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Memory, Voice, and the Global Bob Dylan
1. Songs of Innocence and Experience
2. The Text and the Voice
3. Talking Atomic Blues
4. Which Way History?
Appendix: History’s Lessons Unlearned
Notes
Index of Names
Index of Albums
Index of Songs

Über Autor(innen)

Alessandro Portelli is professor emeritus of American literature at the University of Rome and was for many years a faculty member of the Columbia Oral History Summer Institute. His books include The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American Literature (Columbia, 1994) and They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (2011).