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Bob Dylan - The Never Ending Star (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 160
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Bob Dylan - The Never Ending Star (Paperback)
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Loot Price R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable.
Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered
responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical
complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave
Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we
understand it today.
As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless
books and intricate scholarship considering various dimensions of
both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan
as a rock star. Whatever else Dylan is, he is a star - iconic,
charismatic, legendary, enigmatic. No one else in popular music has
maintained such star status for so long a period of time.
Showing how theories of stardom can help us understand both Bob
Dylan and the history of rock music, Lee Marshall provides new
insight into how Dylan's songs acquire meaning and affects his
relationship with his fans, his critics and the recording industry.
Marshall discusses Dylan's emergence as a star in the folk revival
(the "spokesman for a generation") and the formative role that
Dylan plays in creating a new type of music - rock - and a new type
of star. Bringing the book right up to date, he also sheds new
light on how Dylan's later career has been shaped by his earlier
star image and how Dylan repeatedly tried to throw off the
limitations and responsibilities of his stardom.
The book concludes by considering the revival of Dylan over the
past ten years and how Dylan's stardom has developed in a way that
contains, but is not overshadowed by, his achievements in the
1960s.
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