Kirjahaku
Etsi kirjoja tekijän nimen, kirjan nimen tai ISBN:n perusteella.
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Dylan Howard
The meaning of Bob Dylan’s songs has long been debated by fans, critics and academics. When, in 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the significance of his songs was confirmed. Yet their meaning has never been demonstrably explained. Dylan himself has said that people can learn everything about him through his songs: “if they know where to look.” This book shows his millions of fans exactly where that is. Dylan has written hundreds of songs, many of which are acknowledged masterpieces. “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Mr.Tambourine Man”, the list goes on. In the 1960s, he was hailed as a prophet. Since then, he’s generally been considered a genius. One thing he’s always been, though, is an enigma. In Bob Dylan: What the Songs Mean, critic Michael Karwowski analyses the lyrics. In the process, he opens up all sorts of avenues into philosophy, mysticism, religion, literature, art, and, of course, music. This is a “must read” book for anyone who wants to learn more about the meaning behind the songs or anyone interested in understanding how a genius sees the world. It also considers the impact Dylan’s words have had - not only on his fans, but on the worlds of popular music, culture and beyond.
Dylan duckling and his three sisters are off to the pond for their very first swim. "Hold on to the daisy chain, then you won't get lost," says Mummy duck. But Dylan has other ideas...
Dylan duckling and his three sisters are off to the pond for their very first swim. "Hold on to the daisy chain, then you won't get lost," says Mummy Duck. But Dylan has other ideas...
Bob Dylan Play Book
ACC Editions
2016
sidottu
Beginning with rockabilly, moving on to folk music, sliding over to electric, and falling into a psychedelic phase, like a chameleon Bob Dylan has changed his skin repeatedly over the years, juggling his image with apparent ease and subverting the prevailing social and aesthetic models each time. His Supro guitar and the leather jacket - reminiscent of James Dean; the muse of his hobo period Suze Rotolo and his legendary Triumph Bonneville; the Newport Jazz Festival and the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village: artist Matteo Guarnaccia has documented this pilgrimage of styles stage by stage, year by year, with a wealth of detail. The clothes, faces, music and places of those years become subjects to colour in, paper-dolls to dress, and board games to assemble, while the characters of his songs provide the members of a colourful circus. This is the ultimate collector's activity-book to be approached with glue, scissors and colouring pencils, dedicated to all the fans of the legendary singer-songwriter.
"Bob Dylan" provides a short introduction to the music of Bob Dylan including an examination of the impact of his work over time and key critical responses. This book starts by locating Dylan's work within a much broader context of the history of the American popular song and its various antecedents, examining how his music draws on a rich heritage of folk, blues, country, r'n'b as well as ballads, standards, nursery rhymes and pop tunes. Focusing on a selection of songs, it examines how his use of words, voice, instruments, melody and timbre, can be understood within the context of various traditions.Much of the writing about Bob Dylan tends to privilege a few recordings, and a limited range of recurring stylistic themes, placing considerable emphasis on Dylan's early career as a 'protest' singer, and then his surrealistic, stream of consciousness mid-1960s music. Yet, the vast majority of Dylan's musical output has been somewhat less radical (but not necessarily less imaginative) and concerned with questions of romantic desire, lust and loss.Negus shows how these thematic concerns are frequently woven into a narrative style that draws from a range of storytelling traditions as diverse as broadside ballads, modern novels and Hollywood cinema. Negus then considers Bob Dylan's enduring impact on new generations of artists in various musical traditions and different parts of the world as well as the influences upon Dylan's changing style and performing identity, from the turn to electric guitars in the 1960s, to the embracing of Christianity and gospel influences in the late 1970s, and increasing explicit use of folk, ballad, blues and country styles in his later work. In assessing some of the key critical responses to Dylan, and in considering his canonisation within a specific popular music tradition, Negus finally asks how claims for Bob Dylan's genius might be assessed. Why is Dylan's work accorded so much value within the popular music canon, and is this justified?
Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969
Bill Bradshaw; Julie Felix
Medina Publishing Ltd
2019
pokkari
2019 marks the golden anniversary of the mass musical gatherings that saw the hippie generation at their 1969 zenith. Two events stand out, staged within days of each other that magical August: in the United States, there was Woodstock, and in the UK the Isle of Wight Festival of Music. Woodstock drew 400,000 fans and a quality bill that was a Who's Who of contemporary talent - all bar the main man the organisers hoped to lure on the doorstep of his home, Bob Dylan. Instead, Dylan opted to headline at the Isle of Wight, in front of close to 200,000 adoring fans. Here Bill Bradshaw celebrates the events of that summer 50 years on... and how the Isle of Wight, off England's southern coast, staged what was then the nation's biggest festival - and how it pulled off such a huge coup. Eye-witness accounts from fans, artists and the promoters bring alive that gilded summer and how it influenced both Dylan and the rock festival movement for generations to come.
For a time, the Isle of Wight Festivals transformed a sleepy English island into the rock'n'roll capital of the world. From promoting a one-nighter in 1968, to raise funds for a local swimming pool, the young Foulk brothers were able to outperform Woodstock, by signing the world-exclusive appearance of rock's poet laureate, Bob Dylan. The de facto leader of the counterculture had been hidden away in the artist-town of Woodstock, rarely seen after a motorcycle accident three years earlier. He turned his back on the eponymous festival, put there to persuade him to come out and play, and left for Europe on the day their event began. For the Foulk brothers - lacking experience, resources and time - the coup and ensuing public response was almost overwhelming, but with audacious bravado and steely determination they delivered the most awaited event of the era. Devotees from hippies to celebrities flocked to the Island from mainland Britain, Europe, the Americas and as far away as Australia. As well as changing the lives of Ray and his brothers the phenomenon played its part in a highly transformative period for Bob Dylan, in which the Isle of Wight remained his one and only full concert appearance in seven-and-a-half years.
Follow the authoritative text encompasses the complete inside story of Bob Dylan the man and his music; the book traces the Bob Dylan story with a detailed biography of his life from his early folk roots through to the world wide musical phenomenon that we know today. The book also features a comprehensive track by track analysis of his studio albums from the 1960s.
When Bob Dylan picked up a silver cross thrown on stage and found Christianity in the late Seventies, it ended a search that had begun when his life crashed to a halt in 1966. According to Dylan, the turning point came one night in late 1978 when he received a "vision and a feeling." Dylan later said, "Jesus put his hand on me. It was a physical thing. I felt it. I felt it all over me. I felt my whole body tremble. The glory of the Lord knocked me down and picked me up." That search makes sense of his John Wesley Harding album and the following 12 years.
Bob Dylan's 1983 album Infidels was a departure from his previous works in so many ways - lyrics, music, production and spirit. It is unique amongst Dylan albums, and while songs like 'Jokerman' and 'I and I' are well known, the album is less so. Surviving in a Ruthless World draws on previously unseen, and unheard resources in The Bob Dylan Archive(R) in Tulsa. It is the story of the writing and the recording of the album's eight songs and unreleased tracks from the Infidels project. Author Terry Gans was granted unique permission to write, research and quote from Dylan's personal notebooks, voluminous song drafts, 49 reels of master session tapes and from reference recordings and documents. Together with interviews with musicians, managers, video producers, and more Terry Gans creates a detailed picture of Bob Dylan creating his art with all of his usual mystery and magic..
The Joker and The Thief is a collection of the best writing about Bob Dylan by the late Peter Stone Brown on May 26, 2022. Peter was a freelance writer, singer-songwriter and renowned Dylanologist. His rootsy debut album Up Against It was recorded in the Austin studio of childhood friend Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. Debuting on the Americana charts in 1996, it featured many legendary Austin session players including Cindy Cashdollar who would play on Bob Dylan's Time out of Mind the following year. Peter was a DJ at WXPN in the '70s where he interviewed many of the blues, folk and country greats, including Muddy Waters, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker, Dr John, Carl Perkins, George Jones and James Brown. Later, through the '80s and '90s, he was a rock critic at The Welcomat, Philadelphia's alternative newspaper and predecessor of the Philadelphia Weekly. In David A. Kinney's book The Dylanologists: Adventures in the land of Bob, Peter describes how after a few sessions with a psychiatrist as a teenager, he finally brought in a copy of Bringing It All Back Home, dropped the needle on It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) and said to the doctor, "this is how I feel". The psychiatrist then discharged him. That feeling, passion and deep sense of how things are permeated his life, his writing, reading, music, and politics. After a summer of discovering the music of Bob Dylan thanks to a performance by Pete Seeger, Peter saw his first Bob Dylan concert in Newark, New Jersey at the Mosque Theatre on November 30th 1963. This sparked a love for Bob Dylan that would find him attending nearly 200 concerts spanning 1963 to 2018. He witnessed Dylan in transition over almost all of his career, attending fabled shows like Philharmonic Hall in 1964, electric Dylan at Forest Hills in August 1965 through tour '74, the Rolling Thunder Revue, the Gospel shows and up through the Never Ending Tour. His last Bob Dylan concert would land in his hometown of Philadelphia for the grand opening of the Metropolitan Opera House, December 3rd 2018. In recent years Peter continued playing his own concerts, writing on Bob Dylan, chronicling the Never Ending Tour. Over the years he has contributed to Bobdylan.com, American Songwriter, CounterPunch and No Depression. In 2008 Jeff Rosen commissioned Peter to write liner notes for Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs, he spent about a week listening to tracks sent by Dylan's office, suggesting songs and writing as he listened. In the end his notes didn't make the final release but were posted on Bobdylan.com. For more than twenty years Peter spoke of writing a book about Bob Dylan called The Joker and the Thief. He'd drafted various outlines of how it would go, spoken to numerous friends over the years about it, but he kept getting pulled into other work. Fortunately much of what has become his body of work on Dylan, from concert and album reviews to prose pieces, cover many of the ideas Peter had for the book and are contained herein. In 2018 Peter was diagnosed with a form of pancreatic cancer. Right around that time rumours surfaced about the impending release of More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14. This release was something Peter had waited a lifetime for. His brother Tony Brown is the bass player on the New York Sessions for Blood on the Tracks, and so the album was embedded mythologically and deeply in Peter's emotional life. Peter would make it into 2019 long enough to see Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, and some glimpses of The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin' Thru, 1967-1969 but unfortunately would not write about either. Peter died on October 5th 2019. He missed the incredible US Fall 2019 Tour by a matter of weeks, he missed Murder Most Foul and he missed Rough and Rowdy Ways. We can only wonder what he would've thought. The title The Joker and the Thief had been rolling around in Peter's head for as long as I knew him and probably long before that too. Over the years he'd make efforts in the direction of a book proposal, he'd sketch out what he'd like to cover, looking for a place other writers perhaps hadn't gone, his own illuminations, or at least writing from his lived experience of having seen Dylan at the beginning of his career and still being around towards the end of it. Although this book works as a collection of Peter's writings, what's interesting however is that the book was there all along, in the concert and album reviews and prose pieces he was already writing while thinking about a book. This collection aims to fulfil Peter's life's work on Bob Dylan, it's a loving tribute to a friend and completion of something he'd always strived to do. Trev Gibb
Starting in 1985, Bob Dylan magazine contains a wealth of information on Bob Dylan by a range of authors - much of it not available anywhere else. This Anthology celebrates the 200th edition in the 34th year of continuous publication. Featuring a brand new selection of the latest and best articles, illustrations and photographs none of which have been available in book form before. This selection has been compiled by the magazine's founding editor, Derek Barker. The book covers Dylan's career that includes 36 studio albums, 13 live albums and 14 multi-disc collections in the bootleg series.
More than 400 fans, friends and colleagues tell their stories of seeing, knowing and working with Bob Dylan, from his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota right through to finding Jesus - with first hand accounts of seeing him live from the smallest of venues to festivals and arenas.From early recording sessions through the 1966 tour, from the rural seclusion of Woodstock to turning gospel, this book reveals a contemporary view of the younger Dylan. Fans, friends and colleagues who were there take you back to an amazing era with personal photographs, memorabilia, anecdotes and stories that have never been published before.
A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwritingBob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan:How the Songs Work (originally published as Bob Dylan's Poetics) is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan's compositions. It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an artist, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric, it traces Dylan's innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan's earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan's achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism, the book studies the relationship between form, genre, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan's work. Bob Dylan:How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.
Got a dog-and a question about keeping it safe, happy, and healthy?Dylan's Dog Squad has the answer.When Casey, Dylan, and Sumo-aka Dylan's Dog Squad-aren't solving mysteries, catching bad guys, and doing search and rescue, they're meeting exciting new people while visiting schools, working with organizations such as Scouts, and participating in charitable events. They are often asked about their two favorite topics-dogs and dog training. Dear Dylan's Dog Squad is inspired by those questions.A book of loving tips and how-to's for dog owners of any age.
Dylan and Emily are back in book #2 of this series. This time, someone stole the bases from the baseball field. Can they track down the culprit in time for practice?Dylan and his little sister, Emily, don't go anywhere without Dylan's detective kit. Their trusty dog, Theodore, is always by their sides, ready to lend a helping paw. One sunny Saturday, the trio heads to the ball field for some practice, only to discover a puzzling problem-the bases are missing Determined to crack the case, Dylan, Emily, and Theodore set off on a mission to locate the missing bases.Parents & Educators: For reluctant readers or newly independent readers, books in this series can be read in any order and are packed full of reading-level appropriate text, interesting content, and fast moving plots. This story includes 20+ illustrations to keep readers engaged.The Hunt for Home Plate includes a QR code for educators with downloadable curriculum-aligned ELA/Math activities that are ideal for 1st or 2nd grade classroom use.ELA activities focus on developing vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills. Each chapter includes a Tier 2 word and discussion prompts.Math activities focus on developing fact fluency.
Dylan and Emily are back in book #3 of this series. This time, someone took the Camp Leaf trophy. Can they track down the prize in time for the camp games?Dylan and his little sister, Emily, don't go anywhere without Dylan's detective kit. Their trusty dog, Theodore, is always by their sides, ready to lend a helping paw. While the kids are away at camp, the Camp Leaf games trophy goes missing. Together with some old friends and a few new ones, Dylan and Emily set off to track down the trophy.Parents & Educators: For reluctant readers or newly independent readers, books in this series can be read in any order and are packed full of reading-level appropriate text, interesting content, and fast moving plots. This story includes 20+ illustrations to keep readers engaged.The Thief of Camp Leaf includes a QR code for educators with downloadable curriculum-aligned ELA/Math activities (22 in total ) that are ideal for classroom use.ELA activities focus on developing vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills. Each chapter includes at least one Tier 2 word and discussion prompts.Math activities focus on developing fact fluency.
Dylan and Emily are back in book #3 of this series. This time, someone took the Camp Leaf trophy. Can they track down the prize in time for the camp games?Dylan and his little sister, Emily, don't go anywhere without Dylan's detective kit. Their trusty dog, Theodore, is always by their sides, ready to lend a helping paw. While the kids are away at camp, the Camp Leaf games trophy goes missing. Together with some old friends and a few new ones, Dylan and Emily set off to track down the trophy.Parents & Educators: For reluctant readers or newly independent readers, books in this series can be read in any order and are packed full of reading-level appropriate text, interesting content, and fast moving plots. This story includes 20+ illustrations to keep readers engaged.The Thief of Camp Leaf includes a QR code for educators with downloadable curriculum-aligned ELA/Math activities (22 in total ) that are ideal for classroom use.ELA activities focus on developing vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills. Each chapter includes at least one Tier 2 word and discussion prompts.Math activities focus on developing fact fluency.