Murphy, Peter (2010) Bob Dylan ain't talking: one man's vast comic adventure in American music, dramaturgy, and mysticism. In: De La Fuente, Eduardo, and Murphy, Peter, (eds.) Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music. Social and Critical Theory: A Critical Horizons Book Series, 8 . Brill, Lieden, The Netherlands, pp. 49-70.

Preview	Image (JPEG) (Book Cover) - Cover Image Download (27kB)
Preview	PDF (Accepted Version) - Accepted Version Download (293kB)
	PDF (Published Version) - Published Version Restricted to Repository staff only
	Audio (MP3) (Audio Discussion) - Supplemental Material Download (25MB)

Abstract

[Extract] Bob Dylan has spent a lifetime despising the nineteen-sixties - all the while being held up everywhere as its avatar. This comic tale of mistaken identity is the the story of his life. No matter what he says - let alone what he sings - it seems to make no difference. When he wrote a percussive-pulsating one chord rant-chant against living in a 'Political World' in 1989, it was dismissed by critics - sub-standard Dylan, they said. What they were really saying was: no, we don't believe you. You are a protest singer at heart. You don't really loath politics, whatever you might say or do. So books continue to be written about him as if he was a nineteen sixties political radical playing loquacious-hipster king to Joan Baez's platitudinous-remonstrating queen. No matter how much he might excoriate this notion of his marvelous biography, Chronicles, Volume One - one of the great pieces of American literature, on a par with Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Angie March - it changes nothing. Left-liberal writers still compulsively lionize him in their own image - and their feckless children, who populate the modern media machines, regurgitate the same risible clichés about him.

Item ID:	22552
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	978-90-04-18434-3
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2013 01:13
FoR Codes:	22 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 2203 Philosophy > 220301 Aesthetics @ 50% 22 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 2203 Philosophy > 220319 Social Philosophy @ 50%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9501 Arts and Leisure > 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) @ 100%
Downloads:	Total: 1407 Last 12 Months: 11
	More Statistics