Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761819479)

Bob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author's Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative examples 24 performances of 11 songs by Bob Dylan. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index.

Author: Betsy Bowden
ISBN-10: 0761819479
ISBN-13: 9780761819479
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d