Bob Dylan's earth-shattering performance at Newport in 1965 changed
the face of rock and roll and the face of folk music forever. Dylan
broke the musical equivalent of the sound barrier. He had to teach
his audience how to hear sounds that had never before been heard.
Dylan did the same for religion when he converted to Christianity
in late 1978. Rock and religion have become intertwined in
contemporary culture. Does rock gain its power from the decline of
religious authority? Is rock a neutral medium that churches can
appropriate with little or no danger to spiritual truths? Do rock
and religion have the same ancient roots? Or is rock essentially at
odds with Christianity? No contemporary musician presents a better
test case than Bob Dylan. He played a key role in the fusion of
rock and religion when he converted to Christianity. Dylan was
ahead of the contemporary Christian music trend. Although he helped
legitimize Christian rock in the late seventies, even his early
music had deeply spiritual undertones. From the beginning of his
career, Dylan talked about his music in terms of a spiritual
calling. He imbued rock with something oracular and otherworldly -
a supersonic rendition of the supernatural - which gave popular
music enough weight to convey something of the mystery of religious
ritual. Webb focuses on Dylan's religious period in this book, but
convincingly shows that this religious period cannot be understood
apart from a rereading of his entire career. Webb reevaluates
Dylan's early career in light of Dylan's Christian period and shows
that Dylan's Christian period was a natural development in his
musical and spiritual journey.
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