Tempo: A Scarecrow Press Music Series of Rock, Pop, and Culture
offers titles that explore rock and popular music through the lens
of social and cultural history, revealing the dynamic relationship
between musicians, music, and their milieu. Like other major art
forms, rock and pop music comment on their cultural, political, and
even economic situation, reflecting the technological advances,
psychological concerns, religious feelings, and artistic trends of
their times. Whether you are a professional musician or regular
listener, diehard fan or music student, titles in the Tempo series
are the ideal introduction to major pop and rock artists and the
music they produced and their cultural and musical impact on
society. With each year, new books appear on Bob Dylan, attesting
to his continuing importance as a major figure in American music
and culture. Bob Dylan: American Troubadour is the first book on
Dylan to look at his entire career, from his first album to his
most recent, Tempest, released 50 years later in 2012.In a brief
compass, Brown provides insightful critical commentary on Dylan's
entire corpus, placing full scope of Dylan's career in the context
of its times in order to assess the relationship of Dylan's music
to contemporary American culture. Each chapter addresses a
particular phase of Dylan's career, taking its cue from events in
Dylan's life and from the collective experiences that shaped the
times. As the artist who famously proclaimed the times, they are
a-changin', Dylan was never static as an artist, his music altering
as the times changed. In Bob Dylan: American Troubadour, Donald
Brown follows the shifting versions of Dylan, from his songs of
conscientious social involvement to more personal exploratory
songs; from his influential rock albums of the mid-'60s to his
adaptations of Country music; from his three very different tours
in the 1970s to his born again period as a proselytizer for Christ,
to his frustrations as a recording and performing artist in the
1980s; from his retrospective importance in the Nineties to the
refreshingly vital albums he has been producing in the 21st
century.Bob Dylan: American Troubadour will engage not only Dylan
fans and students of his work but those interested American popular
music, history, and culture. Anyone who has been touched,
challenged or surprised by a Dylan song, who would like to know
more about this long and fascinating career, who wants to discover
Dylan within his context will find in Bob Dylan: American
Troubadour a concise and informed critical overview of Dylan's
music and his place in the American musical landscape.
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