Bob Dylan In America (Hardcover)

Bob Dylan In America (Hardcover)

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One of the most distinguished historians in America demonstrates how Bob Dylan, one of the most exceptional and enduring artists in the country, continues to amaze and evoke emotion in us even after all these years. Sean Wilentz, having grown up in Greenwich Village, discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager. Now, almost fifty years later, he revisits Dylan's work with the expertise of a distinguished American historian and the ardor of a devoted admirer. Derived in part from Wilentz's essays as the "historian in residence" of Dylan's official website, Bob Dylan in America is a distinctive fusion of factual information, interpretation, and personal affinity—a book that, much like its subject, adapts and transforms as necessary. Commencing with Dylan's emergence onto the scene in 1961, this book traces Dylan's artistic journey as he continues to craft a body of musical and literary work that is unparalleled in our cultural history. Wilentz's analysis situates Dylan's music within the cultural and historical context of its time, accounting for the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a comprehensive critical appraisal of Dylan's skill as both a lyricist and performer up to the present day. Wilentz has been granted extraordinary access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, enabling him to recount Dylan's story and the creation of masterpieces such as Blonde on Blonde with exceptional authenticity and depth. Bob Dylan in America—a groundbreaking, sweeping, and utterly absorbing work—is the result of a meeting between an exceptional author and an extraordinary subject.

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