Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation - A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan''s lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock''n''roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as "poems." Dylan''s Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan''s 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal "autobiography" in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.>

About the author

Louis A. Renza is an Emeritus Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA. He has published critical works on various US writers such as Poe, Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and Wallace Stevens. Starting in the 1970s and through 2010, he taught a Dartmouth course on Bob Dylan’s lyrics, directed a 2006 conference at Dartmouth College on Dylan, and has published an article on his works in the Winter, 2008 journal a/b (Auto/Biography) entitled "Bob Dylan's 116th Dream."

Product details

• Authors: Louis A Renza, Louis A. Renza, Louis A. (Dartmouth College Renza
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781501328527
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2852-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Rock, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Pop Music, Folk & traditional music, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music