ʙᴏʙ ᴅʏʟᴀɴ: ʟɪғᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴏʀᴋ
75 - 77
Luigi Pirandello's theory of relativism
Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author
born 1941, been different people
fictional depiction of many Dylans in I'm Not There,
written and directed by Todd Haynes:
woman (Cate Blanchett)
young black actor (Carl Franklin)
older man (Richard Gere)
hollywood stars (Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw,
Christian Bale)
Woody Guthrie emulator
folk singer phenomenon,
actor playing folk singing phenomenon
dream vision who evokes French Symbolist poet
Arthur Rimbaud,
billy the kid figure in western town
character from the documentary film made of Dylan's
1965 tour, Dont Look Back
fervent evangelical Christian
minstrel in white face
mysterious reclus
debut album - 1962
38 albums, folks, blues, country rock, rock and roll
Christmas music, 2 American crooner standards
insist he was "a song and dance man"
winter 1961 - arrive at NY's Greenwich Village,
center of folk scene
left native MN, to perform in NYC, visit Woody
Guthrie ("This Land is Your Land")
according to Dave Van Ronk, Dylan one of very
few to visit Guthrie in hospital when he was
suffering from Huntington's Disease
20 yr old with guitar, harmonica, voice David Bowie
symbolize as "sand and glue"
sign record deal with Columbia Records
1st album - 12 songs, 2 original, other renditions
of folk and blues standards
2nd album - The Freewheeling Bob Dylan
Masters of War - Scottish/English ballad Nottamun
Town
A Hard Rain's A'Gonna Fall - Lord Randall
write songs that result in financial reward
Broadside magazine - politically charged, topical
covers:
folk - Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta (full album)
rock - The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, Pearl Jam
soul and jazz - Nina Simone (full album of covers)
punk rock - Ramones and Lou Reed
country: Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell
acoustic 3 stanza ballad - rock classic in Jimi Hendrix's
version of "All Along the Watchtower"u
60s - The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, Blond on Blond (1966)
70s - Desire and Blood on the Tracks
critic Christopher Rocks (Oxford scholar) recognize as
one of greatest poets in 20th century in Dylan's Visions
of Sin
has written books on Milton, Tennyson, T.S.Eliot
as prose writer, Dylan written in Chronicles, Volume One,
on cultural history of latter half of 20th century
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