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Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Hardcover)
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Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs (Hardcover)
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Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan
through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting
writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic Greil
Marcus. . . . No one alive knows the music that fueled Dylan's
imagination better. . . . Folk Music . . . [is an] ingenious book
of close listening."-David Remnick, New Yorker "Marcus delivers yet
another essential work of music journalism."-Kirkus Reviews
(starred review) "Further elevates Marcus to what he has always
been: a supreme artist-critic."-Hilton Als Across seven decades,
Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer
and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that
comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to
anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's
story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's
point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others."
Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work of implicit patriotism and
creative skepticism. It illuminates Dylan's continuing presence and
relevance through his empathy-his imaginative identification with
other people. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life
and times of Bob Dylan but a rich history of American folk songs
and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his
own.
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