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Bob Dylan In America

by Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz
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One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.
Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in part from Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’s official website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact, interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject, shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants.
Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this book follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song­writer and performer down to the present. Wilentz has had unprecedented access to studio tapes, recording notes, rare photographs, and other materials, all of which allow him to tell Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.
Bob Dylan in America—groundbreaking, comprehensive, totally absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.

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  • Release date

    September 7, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9780307715005
      • File size: 340406 KB
      • Duration: 11:49:10

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bob Dylan has been the subject of many books and justifiably so as his vast body of work plays an important part in the scope of the American musical experience. Sean Wilentz--who, as a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village, was in the Dylan camp early--provides enough anecdotal evidence to make clear Dylan's inscrutable charms, skimming eras and drawing parallels with blues artists like Blind Willie McTell as he describes the making of such masterpieces as BLONDE ON BLONDE and BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. Wilentz's cool tenor never ceases to assure the listener that he's highly engaged with his subject matter, and the production is further enhanced by the inclusion of several snippets of actual Dylan music, a first in the world of audiobooks. J.S.H. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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