Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation
A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
Author(s)
Renza, Louis A.
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
102549Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Literature; Bob Dylan; Song Lyric Interpretation; Autobiography; Folk; Blues; Rock'n RollDOI
10.5040/9781501328558ISBN
9781501328527, 9781501352010, 9781501328541, 9781501328534OCN
1100519359Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
New York, 2017Classification
Traditional and folk music
Folk, Folkloric styles