A true icon of American popular culture, songwriter and
entertainer Bob Dylan was a catalyst for changing social currents
in the 1960s. His songs of the 60s, such as "Blowin' in the Wind,"
immediately conjure up an era even for those too young to have
witnessed it. Although he often shuns the public eye and has
dropped out of sight for long periods in his career, Dylan
continues to write and perform and remains influential on the
popular music scene. Unswerving in his antiwar stance, he shocked
audiences of the February 1991 Grammy Awards ceremony, at which he
was honored with a lifetime achievement award, by singing his
"Masters of War" during Operation Desert Storm.
Elusive to biographers, Dylan has inspired relatively few
substantive accounts, although much has been written about his
music. The present study presents an accurate summary of his life
and an analysis of his pivotal role in popular music. His more than
400 songs and other writings, recordings, concert tours, and film
and television appearances are all fully documented, as are bootleg
recordings and recordings of his music by other singers. Presented
in a lively manner with much anecdotal material, the facts and the
myths about Dylan and the strengths and weaknesses of writings
about him are carefully assessed in this one-volume source on the
man and his work.
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