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 discov-ered 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
song-writer 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.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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